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W, Jeffrey: KEZY, 1986.
Jeff is working morning drive (Jeff and Anna in the Morning) at KDMX (Mix
102.9)-Dallas.Wachs,
Larry: KLSX, 1995-97. As part of the "Regular Guys" talk team, Larry was
working at WKLS-Atlanta until the Spring of 2004 when they were let go
following the accidental airing of explicit language during a "backwards
porno." He left WFOM-Atlanta in November 2017 after a brief revival of "The
Regular Guys."

WADE,
Bill: KHJ,
1963 and 1968-74; KBRT,
1980-81, pd. Born in Los Angeles
on October 11, Bill spent his radio career in California.

Bill worked for KHJin 1963, KDEO and KGB-San
Diego. In 1966 he was working at KFRC-San Francisco.

He returned to KHJ, when it was "Boss
Radio," in 1968. In 1973, Bill worked morning drive while waiting
for Charlie Van Dyke to join the station. He had a
different guest dj every morning with superstars of the day like
Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, the Carpenters, Glen Campbell and the
Osmonds.

In 1969 Bill ran the Bill Wade
Broadcast School of Radio and Television. In 1975 Bill was the gm of
KSOM-Ontario. Last heard he was teaching at LampsonBusinessCollege
in Mesa,
Arizona.

WADE,
Shelley: KBIG, 2017-19. Shelley has always had a
passion for music and entertaining. As a young girl, the Houston,
Texas native dreamed of being an award-winning singer and spent
years performing at events throughout the state. Her interests later
evolved into a curiosity for radio, and for more than a decade, she
has graced the airwaves and entertained music fans from all walks of
life.

Throughout her career, Shelley has been honored with
numerous industry awards and honors including winning Best Midday
Show by A.I.R. (New York) and being named Member of the
Year by the San Diego Association of Black Journalists. She has also
been featured in Time Magazine, and has appeared on daytime
talk shows The Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda and
The Talk. Today, she hosts the weekday afternoon drive on KMYI
Star 94.1-San Diego, and can also be heard weekends on 104.3 MYfm
and KUBE 104.9-Tacoma.

Fans love her relatability, her
friendly demeanor, and her loveable laugh! Outside of radio, Shelley
mentors high school and college students interested in careers in
Journalism, and also volunteers her time hosting events geared
towards helping women that have been victims of domestic violence.
(from KBIG website)

Wagman,
Rob: KBBY, 2003-04; KYSR, 2004; KFSH, 2012-14. In addition to his role at AllAccess Music
Group, Rob joined "Star 98.7" in early summer 2004 and left a few
months later. He was programming WIBT-Charlotte until early 2009. Following
a stint as
apd/md at
WXRK in New York, Rob joined
KFSH in late 2012 for afternoon drive. He went on to WAY/fm and left in late
Spring 2017.Wagner, Dave: KMZT, 2001. Dave joined
"K-Mozart" as pd in March 2001. He is syndicated on a number of
Classical stations.

WAGNER, Gary:
KLON, 1992-2001;
KKJZ, 2009-19. Gary the "Wagman" hosts 'Nothin' But the Blues' on
K-JAZZ. “I first became interested in radio
as a profession in about 1965. An L.A.
teenager in the '60's, I grew up with KFWB and KHJ as my radio
paradigm. The local rock 'n roll station in my hometown, Ontario,
was KASK. Along with a couple of friends with similar interests, I
started my own ‘bootleg’ station, which we called KEG. One friend
built a 15-watt radio transmitter based on plans he modified from an
article in Popular
Electronics magazine. I
built a four-channel mixer, and hooked up a couple of turntables
made from Sears record players. Another friend donated a mike. We
went on the air from my bedroom. For a couple of months, all the
kids in the neighborhood were listening. After the FCC agents left,
we set up a big audio amplifier where the transmitter had been, put
a huge speaker on the roof of my parents' house, and began
‘audiocasting.’ Some of the adults living nearby were, shall we say,
less than thrilled. So I started hanging around at KASK. I got to
know the djs there and they let me run the board sometimes when the
engineer needed to do something else. Then one day about a year
later on a Sunday morning, one of the jocks didn't show up for his
show."

"At the early age of 17, they let me go on
the air and I have never looked back since," Gary continued. "After a stint
in Southern California
radio (KYMS, KACE and KNAC) I got drafted. As part of my Vietnam
tour I worked at a 50,000-watt AM propaganda station. Upon discharge, I
followed a radio career spanning the continent, including 5 years in Chicago,
where at WJKL in 1979 I interviewed the great Muddy Waters. Upon returning
to California
to escape those cold winters, I spent a decade as a real estate broker in
San Luis Obispo
and Ventura
counties. But I returned to my first occupational love, radio, to host
‘Nothin' But The Blues’ on KLON in 1992.” Gary
owns MaxPacific, a Macintosh computer training and consulting firm. He left
KLON (now KKJX) in May 2001. He returned to the Jazz station in 2009 where he
hosts "Nothing But the Blues.

WAGNER, Jack:
KNX, 1947; KGIL, 1951-52; KHJ,
1952-57; KBIQ, 1957-58; KHJ, 1958-62;
KHJ/fm, 1967-68; KNX,
1968. Jack's show business career began at age 4 in Hollywood films as a
French-speaking child actor. By age 17, he was a contract player at
MGM. He became a radio personality at KHJ and the Mutual Network
while performing in tv shows, including Dragnet, Sea
Hunt, The Ann Sothern Show and 144 episodes of The
Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet as "Jack in the Malt Shop."

Jack started an association with the Disney organization when he
and his family were guests for the opening of Disneyland. Beginning
in 1970 Jack handled the voice work at the park and production of
over 40 master tapes that contained background music for the theme
areas at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland and
Disneyland Paris. His taped messages included "Keep your arms and
legs inside the coach," "All aboard" or "Enjoy your stay." For many
years, he supplied the authentic voices of some 20 various Disney
cartoon characters that were heard at the parks. His radio career
spanned a period of special programs to popular music.

At
KHJ in 1957, he hosted an all-night talk/music show with guest
stars. During his first job at KNX, Jack was the announcer for a
live music program featuring performances by his older brother,
Roger Wagner. Jack was the last pd at KNX before the station
switched to all-News. At KMPC and KABC, he was the guest host for
Dick Whittinghill and Gene Norman.
In the 1990s, Jack was a consultant to Las Vegas casino owner
Stephen Wynn and produced the music for the Treasure Island Hotel
and Casino. Jack's son, Mike, was pd of KRLA for a decade. Jack
passed away after collapsing at a rest stop on his way to Palm
Springs on June 16, 1995. He was 69.

Wagner,
Mike: KEZY, 1974; KIIS, 1976-82; KRLA, 1984-94. Mike works for a real estate
firm in Kingman, Arizona.Wagner, Shelley: KABC,
1979-2009. Shelley was the
marketing head at KABC until the cluster downsized in early 2009. She now
works for the Dodgers organization.

WAHL,
Dick: KNX, 1960-67; KFWB, 1975. . Richard died August 18, 2001. Born in
Bellingham, Washington, he graduated from Bellingham High School, attended
Western Washington University and graduated from the University of
Washington. He was active in drama at all three schools. Beginning in 1954, Dick worked in
Seattle at radio stations KOMO and KIRO and later moved to Los Angeles where
he spent the next 20 years working as a news reporter and correspondent for
ABC Radio network news bureau.

“He was one of the
forerunners of news anchors for ABC when they formed their multiple
radio network operations,” remembered colleague Scott
Shurian. In 1974 he served an ABC tour in New York City
before returning to Los Angeles for a spate of service with KFWB
news. “He then decided it was time to share his professional
knowledge as a teacher of broadcast journalism at California State
College. He also shared his great respect and his ethical practices
for electronic journalism with his students. Dick was more than
simply respected by his peers. He was admired by many of them for
his quiet but strong approach to the business he dedicated so much
of his life too. Dick gave up the ghost after a long painful
struggle with Guillain-Barre syndrome,” wrote Scott.

Richard
died August 18, 2001, at the age of 69.

Wailin, Jon R.W.: KZLA, 1979-80. Jon lives
in San Leandro and is doing airborne traffic reports for
KGO-San Francisco. Waite, Charles: KNX, 1968-69. Charles died
of a brain tumor at a young age.Walcoff, Rich: KORJ, 1979; KRLA, 1979-83; KIKF, 1983. Since
1985, Rich has been broadcasting sports on KGO-San Francisco. He was let go
in the spring of 2016 in a major shake-up at the Cumulus station.Wald, Ronnie:
KGIL, 1981-83; KGOE, 1982; KFOX; KTIE, KPRO, KRLA, KMNY, KWRM. 2011 marks
30th year in LA sportscasting. Since 2003, he has been Internet streaming
at: waldcast.com.

WALDEN,
Mike: KNX, 1966-69; KFI, 1970-73.
Mike was prominent in sports broadcasting in Southern California for
over 30 years. He’s the only announcer in radio and tv to serve as
both the voice of the USC Trojans in football and basketball, and
later the voice of the UCLA Bruins in both sports. He’s well known
for his play-by-play work on NCAA football and basketball, including
tennis telecasts for the Prime Ticket Network (now Fox Sports West).
He died in February 2017, at the age of 89.

Mike has done seven Rose Bowl games and major league
baseball for the Dodgers, Cardinals and Braves. Mike served as
sidekick (“on-scene” reporter) for the Super Dave tv comedy specials
originally broadcast on Showtime.

He was born in 1931 and
grew up in Springfield and graduated from the University of Illinois
with a degree in journalism. He worked on the Illinois Sports
Network while in school. After the Air Force, he spent 10 years in
Milwaukee broadcasting Wisconsin football and basketball, the Green
Bay Packers and Braves. From Milwaukee he went to CBS radio in
Chicago. Then, in 1966, he got the USC job.

In 1970, he
became sports director at KFI. He has won four Golden Mike awards,
an L.A. Press Club award and has served five terms as president of
the Southern California Sports Broadcasting Association.

WALDOW, Mitch:
KPFK, 1976-77; KFWB, 1977-83.
Mitch was a news reporter, writer and editor at all-news
KFWB. "After I left the station, I freelanced as a reporter and news
writer at several L.A. tv stations, ending up at KCOP/Channel 13,
where I have done everything from producing newscasts and specials
to selling stock footage." He also works at Fox 11, KTTV.

Mitch produced a bio-documentary on Ronald Reagan's Hollywood years,
which won the Award of Excellence medal from the Film Advisory
Board. He is a former L.A. area governor of the TV Academy, and now
serves on the academy's executive committee as L.A. vice-president.

Mitch's biographical sketch of composer/musician/writer Mason
Williams appears in the Blues and Folk Encyclopedia,
published by St. Martin's. For five years in the 90s, Mitch was a
regular guest on Ian Whitcomb's show on KPCC. "I'd
bring in a bunch of 78s and we'd 'whack the shellac.' It was a lot
of fun doing that show."

Walker, Adrienne: KOST, 1993-95. Adrienne
was
co-host of the syndicated "World Chart Show." After 20 years at
MIX/fm in Tucson, she left in late 2016.

WALKER, Glynnis:
KFI, 1996-99. Born and raised in London, England,
Glynnis teamed with Maria Sanchez and eventually
went solo for a weekend talk show during her time in L.A. radio.

In the early 2000s she was one of the few female morning drive
talk show hosts in a major market. She has also hosted talk shows in
San Diego at KOGO and KSDO. Prior to her radio career, she was the
owner of a chain of 23 English pubs in Canada.

Glynnis is
the author of six books, including Second Wife, Second Best?,
which was featured on Oprah in 1986. Glynnis earned a BA in
psychology and English at Queen’s University and an MBA in marketing
from York University. In the late 1980s, Glynnis hosted a call-in
talk show on Toronto tv.

Before joining KFI, she hosted and
produced “Real Talk” radio commentaries that were syndicated across
the county. Glynnis left WAIT-Chicago in
early fall of 2002.

Walker, John Lee: KIIS, 1977. Unknown.

WALKER,
Mike: KABC, 2005-08. Mike hosted
an entertainment weekend program on KABC until early 2008.
He died February 16, 2018, at the age of 72.

The first
time I met Mike Walker, King of Gossip for
the National Enquirer, was ten years ago at a trendy spot
on Santa Monica Boulevard. When we were introduced by our mutual
pal, John Phillips from KABC, Mike blurted out to
me, “how is covering a dying industry?” I could have said something
similar about the publishing industry, but Mike was more than just
the guy from the Enquirer. Mike was an entertainer.

If you didn’t read the National Enquirer, perhaps you
remember him from his days at KABC or his weekly guesting on the Howard
Stern show playing ‘The Gossip Game,’ [Walker read four
stories and Stern had to guess which one was true]. Or maybe his
foray as morning man at “Real Radio” KLSX. It could have been his
newsmagazine, “National Enquirer TV.” Or the book he wrote in 2005, Rather
Dumb: A Top Tabloid Reporter Tells CBS How to Do News. Walker
co-wrote with Faye Resnick the #1 New York Times best-selling book
about the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Nicole Brown Simpson:
Private Diary of a Life Interrupted in 1994.

“The
Hemingway of Gossip” — that’s how Howard Stern once described Mike
Walker. To Geraldo Rivera, Walker was the “Guru of
Gossip — the Dean of Celebrity News and a first-rate TV
personality.” And Ryan Seacrest may have put it
best when he asked: “Has Mike Walker ever missed a beat? Nope! Not
to my knowledge. That guy impresses me — he always nails it!”

Mike Walker wrote, and some might say he was
the face, of The Enquirer for five decades. Walker — who
bravely battled a long illness with courage and humor — carried on
writing items for his “Gossip: Coast to Coast” column right up to
the end. “I knew I wanted to be a journalist by the time I was 12 or
13 years old,” said Mike. Leaving his family’s home in Boston at age
16, the future “Gossip King” joined the U.S. Air Force. During a
four-year stint, he taught himself how to be a working journalist by
freelancing features to daily newspapers. After the Air Force,
Walker remained in the Far East and became the youngest-ever foreign
correspondent for International News Service, honing his reporting
skills on a top newspaper in Tokyo, Japan.

“What intervened
then was a wife and two small children, and because I wanted to give
them American roots, I decided that I had to give up the show
business thing and go back to the States.” In 1970, Walker landed in The
Enquirer’s newsroom, then based in Lantana, Florida. A
colleague remembered: “Mike was hired as ‘Chief Writer,’ and he was
a perfectionist. He was usually the first guy to arrive in the
morning and the last guy to go home at night. He loved The
Enquirer; how colorful it was and its great spirit.”

WALKER,Rhett: KRLA,
1967. Born in New Zealand (his
mother was American, his father was British),
Rhett came to the U.S. at the height of the musical "British
Invasion." A number of stations during this period attempted to
bring in English accented jocks. Despite the fact he was a New
Zealander, his unique accent was good enough for Top 40/KRLA in
1967, where he replaced Casey Kasem. Rhett died December
18, 2012, in Victoria, Australia.

Rhett was also a popular dj at KOL-Seattle
and KFXM-San Bernardino.
Rhett arrived at KRLAin 1967 and left within
the year. He returned to Australia in the late 1960s, where he
stayed for the rest of his career.

He held several higher education degrees in
music. Rhett had high profile stints on AM radio and
played a central role in the establishment of fm radio in Australia
as the format consultant and first general manager for FOX FM
Melbourne.

When he left radio he became a professor of Business at Latrobe
University in Victoria.

"He was a programming legend," according to Bruce Corneil, an
Australian pop culture historian. "And he WAS a brilliant
programmer. He did very little on air work after he came back to
Australia. Rhett became a reclusive figure in later years, severing
all ties with his former life in major market radio ending his days
in rural obscurity, which is, apparently, just how he wanted it."
(Thanks to Bill Earl for the
artwork, http://classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com)

Walker, Sky:
see Dave Skyler Wall,
Kevin: KFI, 2006-07; KABC, 2008. Kevin was a fill-in talk show host at KFI.
He worked afternoon drive at KXNT-Las Vegas until November 2014. He's
currently heard on KBET-Las Vegas.Wallace, Gerry: KFI, 1990-93. Gerry is
married to Terri-Rae Elmer.Wallace, Rick:
KFWB, 1967-68 and 1971-76; KABC, 1976-78; KPOL/KZLA, 1978-80; KMPC, 1980-82. Rick was news
director at KPOL and KMPC. Rick lives on Vashon Island, Washington where he
is working on getting a Low Power FM license for Voice of Vashon. He's also
volunteer manager of Vashon Emergency Operations Center and president of
non-profit VashonBePrepared.

WALLACH, Paul,
KIEV,
1976-93. Paul died May 26, 2002, of cancer.
For many years Steve Knight (below
Paul) and Paul hosted a
restaurant/wine show at KIEV.

“Though Paul had not communicated with me
for many years, I had heard in recent years that he was not in the
best of health. I had always thought that I would at least learn
about his passing through a newspaper obituary. Turned out I was
wrong.” Knight continued: “Paul was born in Los Angeles and much of
his youth was spent in the Biltmore Hotel where his father was the
house physician. Paul’s youngest son,
Ward, was one of the six Americans and 520 victims of the crash of a
Japan Airlines 747 Near Tokyo on August 12, 1985. [Japanese singer,
Kyu Sakamoto-whose recording of Sukiyaki was a big hit in 1963 - was
also one of the fatalities of that crash.] “Paul will undoubtedly be remembered well by many Los
Angeles radio listeners for his long-running afternoon drive program
on KIEV. Paul came to the station in April of 1976 and left the
station in 1993 over a disagreement with management about the
direction of the program. I was originally Paul’s announcer on the
program, eventually becoming his co-host. For many years Paul was
the restaurant critic for Westways magazine. He also published a
guide to the restaurants of Southern California, and for a time, a
Northern California version as well. The guides were updated about
every year and a half. He also hosted monthly dinners in connection
with the radio program. These dinners regularly drew 200 or more
listeners, depending on the capacity of the restaurants where they
were held. Paul originally purchased the time from KIEV, beginning
with an hour a day. Because of the intense interest in dining out
and the advent of the celebrity chef – Wolfgang Puck, et al—the
program expanded to as much as four hours to accommodate a high
volume of commercials. Eventually, Paul worked out a deal with the
station to share the commercial revenues from the program. For most
of our years together on the show Paul and I had a lot of fun
together and shared some remarkable dining experiences,” concluded
Steve.

Wallengren, Mark: KOST,
1985-2019. Mark has
co-hosted the morning show with Kim Amidon (they have a Star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame) and Kristin Cruz at KOST. In
2014, he began the program solo. In October 2015, he moved to afternoons.

WALLICHS,
Clyde: When radio was struggling to figure out what to do when tv
came along and stole all the major talent, radio discovered rock 'n
roll music. And the coolest record store in the world was at Sunset
& Vine. It was Wallichs Music City, a place where young people could
gather and individual listening booths to hear the latest new music.

Clyde Wallichs figured it all out and he was the longtime president
of the landmark Hollywood music store. He opened the record store in
1949. At its peak of popularity during the 1960s, it grew to 11
stores in Orange County, L.A. County and Phoenix.

The
Wallichs Music City jingle commercials, performed by various
celebrities on radio including Nat King Cole and Dean Martin, were
very well know to Angelinos.

When the discount record stores
began to proliferate, Wallichs found it increasingly difficult to
continue his service-oriented business approach. He sold the
business in 1978. The stores closed a year later.

WALSH,
George: KNX, 1952-86. George died December 5, 2005,
at the age of 88. He was a veteran with KNX from 1952-86. “When I
was growing up in Cleveland in the 1930s, radio was magic. It was
like being an astronaut today,” George told me when he was
interviewed for Los Angeles Radio People. After
high school graduation he joined the local steel mill and worked
church socials at night. World War II broke out and George enlisted
in the Army Air Corps and served for four years. “I froze in Munich
and decided that when I got out I wasn’t going to return to the
Cleveland cold.”

In 1946 George became pd of
KSWS-Roswell, New Mexico and stayed five years. In 1952 he decided
to return to school for more education and enrolled in the Don
Martin School of Broadcasting in Hollywood. On May 26, 1952, KNX
offered a part-time job of vacation relief at $100 a week. He stayed
34 years.

George was the announcer on Gunsmoke
for three decades (10 years on radio and 20 on television). “By 1986
I was ready to retire. I had had a prostate cancer operation and a
heart pacemaker installed.” George lived in Monterey Park where he
phoned stories into KNX for many years after his retirement.

WALSH, Dr.
Wendy: KFI, 2015-19. Dr. Wendy Walsh hosts a late
Sunday afternoon show on KFI. She drew national attention in the
spring of 2017 as one of the women accusing Fox's Bill
O'Reilly of sexual harassment.

She is a Doctor of
Psychology and media commentator who is obsessed with the science of
love, according to her website. Walsh’s tv career began in Los
Angeles at UPN 13 News where she worked as an anchor/reporter and
later as correspondent on Telepictures Nationally Syndicated show,
EXTRA. After a break from television to earn a Ph.D. in
Clinical Psychology and raise two children, Walsh returned to tv as
a news commentator on CNN and Fox New’s The O’Reilly Factor.

In 2012, she co-hosted The Dr. Phil spinoff, The
Doctors and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Other television
credits include Investigation Discovery Network’s Happily NEVER
After, and Dr. Drew on HLN. Dr. Wendy is an Adjunct
Professor of Psychology at California State University, Channel
Islands. She holds a B.A. in Journalism, a Masters degree in
Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and is the author of
three books about relationships.

WALTER,
Lisa Ann: KFI, 2011-14.

The
actress, comedienne, writer and television series creator and executive
producer started on KFI weekends in late spring of 2011. She left KFI in
late summer of 2014.Born in
1963 in Silver Spring, Maryland, Walter studied drama at the Catholic
University of America in Washington, DC. She appeared in several local
plays, performed stand-up comedy and starred in two television series,
My Wildest Dreams on FOX and Life’s Work on ABC. She had
roles in several movies, including Eddie, The Parent Trap (1998)
and Bruce Almighty.

Walter was the creator and executive producer
of Oxygen Network's 2009-10 dance/weight-loss reality series Dance
Your Ass Off. Her KFI program, “The Fabulous Lisa Ann Walter Show,”
was heard from 4 to 7 pm each Saturday and Sunday from May 2011 until
August 2014, when she quit in order to focus on her acting career. She
discussed acting, dating, dieting, self-esteem, body image and other
subjects in her 2011 memoir, The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It’s
Behind Me.

Walton, Cynthia: KNOB; KFOX. Cynthia is a
part-time actress and is married to former KWIZ dj Johnny
Lewis (Reeder).Wamsley, Bill: KLAC, 1971; KFOX, 1971-72. Bill retired in
the summer of 2001. He's enjoying his two passions - flying and photography.Waples, Alvin John: KGFJ, 1972-77; KJLH,
1984; KGFJ/KKTT, 1984; KACE. Alvin left WMMJ ("Magic 102.3")-Washington, DC
in the early summer of 2010 when the entire staff was let go and the station
automated.

WARD, Bill:
KBLA/KBBQ, 1967-70; KLAC, 1972-79;
KMPC, 1982-93; KLIT/KSCA,
1993-97.
Bill was a radio pioneer bringing Country music to
prominence with the personality-driven KLAC. He also forged
a place for NASCAR broadcasts. If it wasn’t for Bill, there
might never have been an AAA format in this market. Bill
died July 30, 2004, of an apparent heart attack. He was 65.

Born on
January 29, 1939 in Italy, Texas and raised there as well,
Bill’s childhood hero was GeneAutry.
Forty-three years later Bill went to work for Gene as
President of Golden
West Broadcasters. Whotta’ arch to one's professional
journey.

His first radio job
at age 15 was in Waxahachie, a few miles from his hometown. He got
an FCC 1st Class Radio License and did the all-night shift at WRR-Dallas
while attending the University of Texas at Arlington in the late
1950s. Bill went to Gordon McLendon's WAKY-Louisville in 1959 to do the
morning show and in 1962 moved to evenings at WPRO-Providence. His
first programming job was at WPLO-Atlanta while doing mornings. Bill
moved to KBOX-Dallas in late 1964 as morning man and became program
director in 1966. KBOX switched format to Country music in January
1967. In March 1967, he joined KBLA as pd and changed the call
letters to KBBQ and the format to Country music. He became station
manager in 1970.

Bill was hired by
Metromedia in the late summer of 1971 to program KLAC and within a
year was promoted to general manager. In 1979 he was promoted to
exec/vp of Metromedia and moved to New York. By the spring of 1980
he was elevated to president.

He left Metromedia
in the spring of 1982 and moved back to Los Angeles as president of
Golden West Broadcasters, where he became manager of KMPC, in
addition to his duties as president of the company. In 1985, Bill
bought KUTE for Golden West, and the station adopted a Soft AC
format with the call letters KLIT. Bill orchestrated the format
change of 101.9/fm to KSCA, Los Angeles' first AAA station.

Ward,
Cameron: KALI, 1996-2000; KLOS, 1998-2009. Cameron is an Marriage
Family Therapist in the San Fernando Valley.Ward, Mike: KMPC. Mike is an anchor/reporter
at news/talk KFBK-Sacramento.

“Except for radio he was a Street Car fan and has traveled the world
collecting and taking pictures,” said his former wife, Ans.

Paul was born in
Oak Park, Illinois, and he grew up in San Francisco. “I think I got the
radio bug when my mom came home with a Dictaphone machine around 1953, and I
produced many fine radio shows on it, including ‘Dragnet’ and ‘The Cisco
Kid,’” said Paul when interviewed for Los Angeles Radio People. After
a year at Georgetown University, Paul announced to his family that he was
abandoning law for radio and was thrown out of the house. His first radio
job was at KBLA. “I am one of the few people in radio today, who can still
show scars from changing 78rpm soft steel needles every second record.”

He jocked at
KVFM, but wasn’t paid. He answered an ad in Broadcasting
(“Great radio positions for men who loved to hunt and fish, and enjoyed
skiing, which meant that it was a terrible place to have to live.”) and
ended up in Show Low, Arizona, the city named by the turn of a card, for
$125 a week. The job didn’t last long and Paul returned to the Bay Area and
went back to school and worked part-time at KPEN (later K101).

His journey
took him to Truckee, Santa Rosa and Hawaii and Australia and New Zealand.
Following his Southern California stay, Paul moved on to Sacramento,
KFRC-San Francisco and WROR-Boston and then became head of Audio
Stimulation, Wolfman Jack’s company.

Paul owned Far West Communications and
was doing five formats on CD, and a service called MASTERDISC, which
provided hard to find bits on custom CD for about 400 stations around the
world. He was marketed outside of the U.S. by Radio Express. He also spent
about three months a year in South Africa, consulting three Urban AC
stations. He was president/ceo at Far West until his death.

Ward, Rick: KDAY, 1962; KBLA, 1965; KIEV,
1973; XPRS/XERB, 1973-75; KALI. Rick lives in Little Rock, Arkansas and he
is heard on RockitRadio.net. Ward, William: KNX, 1958-62. William died
December 13, 1996, at the age of 76.

WARE, Ciji:
KABC, 1977-93. Born Corlis Jane Ware in 1942 in Pasadena, she moved
with her family to Carmel in 1954. Her father was Harlan Ware,
novelist and writer of the classic radio show, "One Man's Family."
She attended Radcliffe and graduated from Harvard in 1964. Ciji
majored in Renaissance History, but spent most of her time in
musical comedy and ended up as the first female dance captain of the
Hasty Pudding Club. She developed a career in radio and television,
reporting and producing, often on consumerism or public affairs, and
also wrote for magazines.

In the early 1970s Ciji was the
consumer reporter for three local tv stations. In 1984 she wrote her
first book, Sharing Parenthood After Divorce, after her own
marriage came apart. She also won a local television Emmy in 1977
for a program on children whose own parents kidnap them during
custody disputes.

Ciji worked with KABC's morning news team
for decades as the health and lifestyle editor. She has published
two historical novels, one titled Island of the Swans which
was an 18th Century historical epic based on the life of the Duchess
of Gordon, a Scottish woman and confidante of kings and queens. She
also does voiceover work.

WARFEL,
Lynne: KFAC, 1983-86 and 1987-89. Classical music icon Carl
Princi hired Lynn on the fact that she was an ex-actor
and classically trained singer. "Thai’s all the credentials Carl
needed," said Lynn. "I wasn’t afraid to talk and I could pronounce
(at least somewhat) German, French and Italian. His Italian was more
than perfect if that were possible."

After KFAC, she
filled in for Jim Svjeda at KUSC and then left for Scotland where she
worked in Rock at Radio Forth in Edinburgh. "In 1991, WCAL in Northfield
at St. Olaf College hired me back into the Classical world and soon
after, in 1993, Minnesota Public Radio hired me. Currently I am a host
on their national Classical service C-24 and you can even catch me in LA
on KUSC EARLY Saturday and Sunday mornings. My background before radio
was in theater."

Lynn graduated
from Northwestern University with a degree in theater and music. She
came to LA in 1978 where she did bit parts in various and sundry tv
shows and films, (Rockford Files, Mommie Dearest, and
Rich and Famous) and then attended and graduated from Fuller
Seminary in Pasadena. While at Fuller Carl hired her as KFAC’s first
female announcer. "I returned to KFAC with my husband, Tony Holt, until
leaving for Scotland.

WARREN,
Bob:KGBS, 1970-74. The former
announcer for the Lawrence Welk Show and This Is
Your Life died May 21, 2013, in Bend, Oregon. He was 93. Born June 22, 1919 in
Osmond,
Nebraska, he spent four years in the early 1970s as a news anchor at
KGBS.

His first radio job
was at WDEL-Wilmington, Delaware and then to WPEN-Philadelphia. "My dad
met my mom, Madelyn, at WPEN and they married," emailed his daughter,
Kathie Roberts Garrigus. "He joined NBC-New York before volunteering in
World War II where he became a paratrooper and was shipped off to
England, where they discovered there was talent in their midst and he was
asked to announce for the Armed Forces Network and the BBC. While there
he starred in a play by Sara Churchill, the Prime Minister's daughter,
and got a part in the movie Stairway to Heaven with David
Niven."

"By V-day he was part of all the American networks
and found himself working with Edward R. Murrow's roundup of the great
victory," continued his daughter. "On his return to New York, he worked
for ABC radio and landed the part of The Sherriff playing Mark Chase,
Lawman. He moved on to tv becoming the announcer of such shows as
Pinky Lee, Kate Smith, The Red Skelton Show and
This is Your Life with Ralph Edwards. He worked for many major
companies doing tv commercials like Tide, Colgate, Prell, Aqua Velva,
Miller highlife beer, Hertz and on and on. He landed the 'lifetime'
contract for Edsel commercials. That lasted 3 years. He was the
announcer for the Lawrence Welk show for 20 years, where
Lawrence would always thank him with his famous accent, 'Thank-a you-a
Bob-a.'"

“I worked closely with Bob at KGBS,” emailed colleague
Bob Morgan. "Warren and the
late Clark Alexander were
the first two ‘Minuteman’ newsmen.Bob was great!
They used to pre-cart the news each hour and they would bring the carts
in to whoever was on the air and that person would put them in as close
to :15 and :45 as possible.”

Morgan continued: “Bob was notorious for going ballistic when he’d mess
up and have to rerecord one.Many times you could hear him throughout the halls letting go
with a tirade after about 4 takes, then you’d see him look up out the
window with a huge smile.Ron Landry called him one
morning on the hotline which audibly rang in the newsroom while he was
trying to record.Obviously
angry, he answered surly, ‘KGBS.’ Ron asked if he would tell someone
today that he loved them and Bob said loud and clear ‘F*&k You!’ It was
all live on the air with no delay.The only call we got was from a guy who said: ‘You guys are sure
tryingto find new ways to
wake us up.’I have an
aircheck of the whole thing and it always brings a smile as I recall
what a great guy Bob was to work with.He was
Lawrence Welk’s announcer and was famous for his gentle delivery of the
Rosemilk Skincare products, and you would normally see him dancingwith a beautiful woman on the Welk show.So sad to hear of his passing.A top of the line pro to the bone.”

WARWICK,
Stan: KXLA,
1957; KMPC,
1957; KLAC,
1957-64; KGIL,
1964-92, gm. "Your whole life changes after a stroke. I'm lucky I
can still walk and drive but I can't write." That's the way Stan
started aphone conversation in the spring of
1996 from his home on the Central California
coast. He spent three decades with Buckley Communications, holding
every job within KGIL (dj, newscaster, director of news, pd in 1967
and, finally, gm). He was the Announcer of the Year in 1961.

From 1969 until KGIL was sold, Stan
was the vp of West Coast operations at Buckley Communications.

He was born in Tekoa,
Washington
and graduated from Washington State College with a degree in
communications a few years after Edward R. Murrow went through the
same program. Stan suffered two strokes in 1995. One side of his
brain was affected. Every Thursday, five men in the
MorroBay
area who have had recent strokes gathered for group physical and
emotional therapy. “I am thankful that the stroke was not worse and
that I am able to get around.”

Stan died
November 2, 2004 after a number of years of failing health.

WASHBURNE, Jim:
KRLA, 1961-63. In 1966, Jim
fell asleep at the wheel of his car coming home from a
weekend in Big Sur and died in the automobile accident.

Jim came to
KRLA as the Pasadena outlet's pd and afternoon drive jock. Some of
his best remembered on-air references included calling the L.A.
basin the "Washbasin" and saying "..but isn't it quiet when the
goldfish die?"

During his short two-year reign, Jim brought
Emperor Bob Hudson to the station. In 1963, Jim left everything for
San Francisco and KYA.

Wassil, Aly: KABC, 1972. Unknown.

WATERS, Lou:
KFWB, 1968. Lou
was one of the original news
anchor at CNN in 1980.

Lou began his broadcast career in 1959 as a
reporter for KDWB in Minneapolis, where he became the city's
number-one disc jockey. After a half-decade working early evenings
at KDWB, Lou moved to Los Angeles and sister station KFWB for the
all-night shift. He was at the station the last night that rock
music was broadcast along with Gene Weed,
Roger Christian and Joe Yocam.

After KFWB, Lou became a reporter for WWTC radio in Minneapolis,
worked in San Francisco at KNEW, then at New York’s WCBS. His first
television assignment was as a reporter and anchor for KVOA/TV in
1970. Later, after two years at KOLD/TV, the CBS affiliate in
Tucson, where he served as assistant station manager and anchored
evening newscasts, Lou joined CNN as a news anchor for their launch
in 1980. He co-anchored Early Prime and hosted special editions of
the program including Coming of Age, a series of specials
on aging in American society.

In 1986, Lou co-anchored seven
hours of live, continuous coverage of the space shuttle Challenger
explosion. In 1989 he covered five space-shuttle missions, anchored
CNN's one-hour special on the Voyager mission to Neptune and
anchored the initial tense hours of the 1989 San Francisco
earthquake. In 1994 Lou traveled to France and England to prepare a
series of reports on the 50th anniversary of the allied invasion of
Normandy. He spoke with German and allied survivors of the invasion,
adding depth and perspective to CNN's weeklong coverage of the D-Day
anniversary.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota
School of Architectural Engineering, Lou received three Houston
International Film Festival awards and a first-place news award at
the New York Film Festival for his extensive political coverage. In
addition, he won a CableACE Award for Inside Politics, several
Golden Microphone awards and an Emmy Award for spot news reporting.

(Gerry Wallace, Johnny Wendell, Christian Wheel, and
Rick Ward)

Watkins, Chick: KMPC, 1987-88; KGIL,
1998-2000. Chick worked at the Adult Standards format at Dial-Global for
over a quarter of a century. He left in late spring of 2012 after a company
downsizing.

WATSON, Bill:
KHJ, 1972-73; KIQQ, 1973-74;
KMPC, 1975-78 and 1982-87. The former Drake-Chenault national
pd used to split his time between Carlsbad and Rosarita Beach.
"If you're looking for me, I'll be in the first row,
dead center shady side at the Tijuana bullring every season
Sunday at 4.
Bill Watson, who achieved major success in
the world of radio broadcasting, died May 15, 2018 at the age of 88.
His death was a result of pneumonia and emphysema related health
issues.

He was raised in the San Fernando Valley. After his
discharge from the U.S. Air Force in the mid 1950's Watson attended
the Don Martin School of Broadcasting in Hollywood with help from
the G.I. Bill. He began his professional radio career in the
Sacramento area. Bill enjoyed almost immediate success as a disc
jockey and hosted a local tv show for teens. The show was modeled
after Dick Clark's American Bandstand.
Eventually, the super self-confident Watson had a falling out with
the radio station's management. He quit and headed South to Los
Angeles in search of a disc jockey job there. Watson hoped to land a
position at the dominant Top 40 radio station KFWB. Unfortunately
there were no openings at the station at that time.

While in L.A. he visited a friend who was
employed at KDAY. It was in the hallway there that Watson met a young
hyper-active radio executive by the name of Ron Jacobs.
Jacobs invited Watson to lunch at a Hollywood restaurant which was
frequented by record promoters and out-of-work disc jockeys. Jacobs had
previously enjoyed major success as a disc jockey and program director at
Honolulu radio station KPOI. The parent company of KPOI had recently
purchased two radio stations on the mainland. One in San Bernardino and the
other in Fresno. Jacobs was looking for talented disc jockeys to staff the
two stations. As Watson tells the story "Jacobs was talking a mile a minute"
and trying to convince Bill to join the staff at the San Bernardino station
KMEN. KMEN was situated in a cow pasture there and was not generating any
ratings (there were no listeners).

Before the lunch was over Jacobs had convinced
Watson to accept a position as afternoon drive disc jockey. And for a little
extra money he would serve as the program director too. Turns out that
Watson was a natural leader and excellent program director. Within six
months KMEN went from Last to First in the Inland Empire radio ratings. At
the peak of Watson's tenure KMEN generated 70 shares which meant that 70% of
the people listening to the radio were tuned into KMEN 1290. Watson was
instrumental in bringing the Rolling Stones to San Bernardino's Swing
Auditorium for their first performance on American soil.

He very skillfully established the perfect pitch
for the on-air presentation at KMEN and rode the wave of the Surf sound and
the British Invasion. After four years at KMEN, Watson left and became a
programming consultant for other radio stations. Within a short time Bill
Watson teamed up with the legendary radio programmer Bill Drake.
Drake and his partner Gene Chenault had been given the
task of turning around the radio stations owned by RKO General. Those
stations included 93 KHJ in Los Angeles, KFRC in San Francisco, WRKO in
Boston, and WOR-FM in New York City. Other stations under their direction
included KGB in San Diego, CKLW in Detroit/Windsor, Ontario and KYNO in
Fresno. Together Watson and Drake worked their programming magic on these
radio stations creating the "Boss Radio Format." Within a short time all of
the stations enjoyed top ratings too.

Later Watson was instrumental in producing the
national version of the "The History of Rock and Roll", "The History of
Country Music", and several other syndicated radio specials. Towards the end
of his broadcast career Watson was program director at K-100 FM and KMPC
710. He guided KMPC to the number 4 position in the Los Angeles ratings in
a market where 86 stations could be heard on the dial. It was the last
music formatted AM station in town to reach the Top 10 in listener ratings.
(Obit by Commander Chuck Street)

WAY, Art:
XTRA, 1958-61. Art passed
away on March 25, 2008 of a heart attack. He was 76.
Art jocked at the flame-thrower Top 40 station from just
below the border at XEAK (690 AM) in the 1950s and early
‘60s. Art was also a popular air personality at
Crowell-Collier's KDWB-Minneapolis, sister-station to KFWB.

During the infamous KFWB strike in August 1961, KFWB needed
several KDWB jocks to substitute on KFWB, according to
Dream House author Bill Earl. “Because Art had
already been heard by Southern California listeners from his
days on 690 AM, right before he joined KDWB earlier in 1961,
it was a shocker the Way was passed over to be a KFWB
substitute jock by KDWB brass. KDWB instead sent its two
popular drive-timers Hal Murray (6 – 9 a.m.) and
Bobby Dale (3 – 6 p.m.) to jock on Channel 98 during the
KFWB strike, leaving the more "familiar" Art Way BACK in
Minnesota.”

After leaving KDWB, Way was also heard on San Diego's
136/KGB, right before the 1964 flip to the "KGBeach Boys"
Drake-format. Only Bill Wade made the "cut" from
pre-Drake KGB, again passing over Art, who left KGB in April
1964 upon the start of the KGBeach Boys format.

WAYMAN, Tom:
KMPC, 1962-81. At various times during his
two-decade involvement with 710/KMPC, Tom was news director. He was
the news sidekick to both morning show veterans Dick
Whittinghill and Robert W. Morgan.

In early 1981 he hosted a one-hour cooking show as the station
was heading toward an all-Talk format.

Tom began his radio
career at age 14 just after the outbreak of World War II. Most of
the announcers at his hometown station in Logan, Utah, had been
drafted. When he walked into a radio station with his booming voice,
he got the job, despite being in his teens.

He wrote a
cookbook called Chef Tom's Chicken. (Tom is pictured on
left with Paul Panther Pierce)

Wayne, Bill: KZLA, 1983. Unknown

WAYNE,
Bruce. KFI/KOST. Born in New Hampshire, Bruce was
KFI's fixed-wing traffic veteran reporter whose single-engine
Cardinal crashed shortly after takeoff from Fullerton Airport. He
was considered the nation's dean of flying traffic reporters. He
started in 1961 for a Boston station. He died exactly one month
before his 25th anniversary as an airborne traffic reporter.

Bruce reflected in an interview before his death, "I was in
television and radio for 10 years before I ever had a flying
lesson." He came to Los Angeles in 1968 and because of his media
background was able to cover breaking stories from the air.

In 1985 his wife talked about the dangers of traffic piloting, "It's
very hazardous. Most people don't know that. It's stressful too.
Heart attacks are very high among them." He died June 4, 1986.

While running KROQ, he also guided the launch of JACK/fm,
arguably the most successful JACK format in the country. His peers
believe that he has localized JACK and integrated lines and attitude
so much so that we forget the station is jockless. In early 2009, he
flipped the FM Talk Station KLSX to a high powered relentlessly
pounding Top 40 station named AMP Radio with instantaneous results.
He put Carson Daly in the mornings. Carson emerged
as a national star as host of The Voice and part of the
ensemble on NBC's Today Show. Kevin has been acknowledged
with many industry accolades over the years.

Born in 1963,
Kevin started his career at age 12 working for his father at
KPIN-Casa Grande, Arizona. He came to “the ROQ” from KKLQ (“Q106”) –
San Diego. Before “Q106,” Kevin was the md at KIIS and KMEL-San
Francisco and on the air at KZZP-Phoenix. When he arrived at KROQ,
he immediately tightened the playlist, reflecting his Top 40
background. During the summer of 2001, Kevin was made vp of all
Infinity (now CBS/Entercom) music stations in the LA cluster.

WEAVER,
Bill: KWIZ, 1964-90, vp/gm. Bill was responsible
for the very successful Oldies all-Request format that dominated the
Orange County ratings for many years as well "You Pick the Hits" and
"Yes/No Radio" in San Jose, Seattle, Fresno, and San Francisco. He
created one of the first male-female morning teams with
Buddy & Fran in addition to an all-female FM air staff, and
sales staff.

Born in
Brooklyn New York in 1918, Bill 's family moved to Los Angeles in
1928. His first job at Ralphs grocery store, after graduating from
Marshall High School. He served in the Navy during World War II, he
attended Ventura Junior College. After attending radio school in Los
Angeles, his first radio job was at KGFL-Roswell, New Mexico
followed by KBST-Big Springs, Texas.

Unable to lose his New
York accent, Bill returned to California, working for the
Ventura Star Free Press. In 1951 he remarried and they opened
an advertising agency inVentura called
Weaver Saucier and Associates. A year later, Bill moved to
Sacramento and joined the sales staff of KROY. Bill found the
programming related to his sales so he then began creating the
"weaver sound."

Bill left KROY and
jumped crosstown to KXOA only to return with ownership in Sacramento
Broadcasters and KROY. He also owned an ad agency in Sacramento called Media
Scope. In 1964 he moved his family to Orange County and started rhw Voice of
the Orange Empire, KWIZ AM & FM with a format consisting of "instant
requests, and voting."

Weaver added additional stations KLOK-San
Jose, KUUU-Seattle, KARM/KFIG AM & FM-Fresno - KLOK/fm-San Francisco. "My
father very rarely if ever took vacations he loved what he did, and he
looked forward to going into the station each day," wrote his daughter
Patrice. "It was never work for him, it was a love. He ate, slept and lived
radio. He was that rare person who gave so many people the chance in radio.
It was always exciting to be around him." Bill passed away in January 1990.
In 2013, he was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Museum.

Weaver, Bill: KPOL, 1967-70. Bill was the
second CapCities general manager at KPOL. Unknown.Weaver, Hank: KLAC, 1957-61. Hank was a sportscaster in the 50s and
60s and he was replaced at KLAC by Jim Healy. He was in
an automobile accident in the early 1960s on his way home from a boxing
match at Dodger Stadium. Hank was eventually taken to Stanford University
Medical Center and died several weeks later.Webb, Larry: KRLA, 1965-75. When Larry left
his general manager post at KRLA, he joined the staff of FCC
Commissioner Robert T. Lee.

WEBER, George:
KMPC/KABC, 1993-95.George was murdered in his New York
apartment March 20, 2009. For more than a decade after leaving 710/KMPC,
George was the morning news anchor at news/talk, WABC-New York. He was
47.His blog provides some insight
into George Weber:

"As a kid
growing up in Philadelphia, I was always fascinated by radio ...so much so I
took over the basement of my parent’s home to set up a make-shift radio station.
I even did a tv show but, in reality, I just created a set and talked into a
tape recorder.

In high
school, after a grueling audition, pronouncing words like Versailles and not
‘ver-sallies’ and Grand Prix and not ‘pricks,’ I spent a few years at WCSD in
Warminster, Pa. Unlike my basement set-up, this was a non-commercial fm radio
station, one of only two licensed to schools in the United States.

While still in
high school, I talked my way into a job at a day-time only radio station in
nearby Doylestown, PA – WBUX. I remember going into the boss’ office, after
three years at WBUX and asking for a raise. He whipped off his glasses, and
while shaking them at me said ‘if you want to make more money, leave.’

I did. I spent two and a half great years at WAEB in
Allentown, PA reporting and anchoring the news and making some great friends in
the city where they're closing all the factories down, as Billy Joel sings to
us. I still have my audition tape that I sent to Phil Boyce, the news director
at KIMN in Denver, a legendary Top 40 radio station with a big commitment to
news. I was hired as a street reporter and anchor in 1985 and to this day, KIMN
[it’s pronounced KIM] remains one of my greatest career moves. I was offered
jobs in Atlanta, Sacramento and imagine, Buffalo at about the same time.

Sadly, two and a half years after my arrival, the
music died. KIMN’s call letters vanished and it became a Country radio station -
leaving many of us without jobs. Luckily, Kris Olinger, now a good friend,
remembered how – while covering a fire – I walked a good 50 feet before
realizing I was dragging my microphone on the ground behind me. She hired me at
KOA in Denver, a 50-thousand watt clear channel radio station heard in 38 states
at night. Originally, I was hired as a reporter, but ended my career there doing
a highly rated night time talk show. That launched my talk career.

irst stop, KGO in San Francisco, where
I split my time between talk and news - and never got to experience a big
earthquake. I arrived a year too late for the ’89 quake. What didn’t go over so
well here wasmy weekend talk show, which the
general manager thought was a little too racy. I was asked to stay on in the
news department, but decided instead to go to KOGO, a newly re-formatted talk
station in San Diego. Less than a year later, management decided it couldn’t
afford the cost of running such an expensive format. I was fired, but spent the
next six months [thanks to a nice severance deal] sitting on the beach.

Unfortunately, I spent too much time relaxing and
not enough time looking for a job, that I actually considered getting a roommate
to share my loft in downtown San Diego. As luck would have it, I ended up
picking up some cash doing weekends in Los Angeles at KMPC, which was attempting
to do a hot-talk format. I actually had a blast doing shows there, but then an
old friend came calling.

They hadn’t forgotten about me in Denver and so – I
was invited back by the same company at a brand new talk station, KTLK. Never
before have I had so much fun doing a radio talk show. This was the kind of
radio I liked, controversial, upbeat and a little edgy. Unfortunately, ‘Real
Talk Radio’ as they called it was about to be blown-up for a new talk format.

Just in time, the biggest radio station in the world
called – wondering if I’d like to do news on WABC in New York. I said yes – and
a few weeks later – I was living in the West Village and talking on the radio.

WEBER, Pete:
KRLA/KIIS/KPRZ, 1978-81. The
former color commentator for the Los Angeles Kings is the
play-by-play voice of NHL's Nashville Predators on Fox Sports
Tennessee and WGFX ("The Zone").

As one of the sidekicks to
veteran hockey announcer Bob Miller, Pete broadcast
the L.A. Kings games between 1978 and 1981. When Pat Riley
left as Chick Hearn's colorman to be an
assistant under coach Paul Westhead, Pete finished the broadcast
season.

Born in Galesburg, Illinois, he graduated from Notre
Dame with a B.A. in modern languages and an M.A. in communications
arts. He spent his sophomore year at the University of Innsbruck,
Austria. Pete has done play-by-play for a number of sports. He was
connected with the Buffalo Sabres for better than a decade. Pete has
also been associated with the Buffalo Bills pre- and post-game shows
along with being a radio analyst. His baseball play-by-play
assignments include the Buffalo Bisons since 1983.

Pete did
vacation fill-in for Fred Hessler on KMPC with
Robert W. Morgan. Pete is the play-by-play voice of
the NHL’s Nashville Predators.

WEDEL,
Rosie. KOST/KFI. Traffic
reporter Rosie Wedel retired
in the early fall of 2018, wrapping
up 28 years on the air, according to a note from colleague Alan
Ross. “OMG! Rosie Wedel IS Airwatch, Total Traffic,
et al.! She’s heard on KFI, KOST, among others during her
time on Airwatch America, Airwatch Traffic, and Total
Traffic+Weather Network. She was also news director for
several stations contracted with AirWatch.”

Alan has
high praise for Rosie. “What a talent, what a leader. What
an organizer. She’s absolutely a teammate and a friend.
We’ll never really be the same without her in the
building...period!”

We
asked Rosie for highlights during her three decades of
getting us through the thick of Southern California traffic.
“I think I will just go quietly into the sunset,” she
responded. “It’s been a lovely career and I am very
blessed.”

(Michael Wilbon, Zoe Walrond, Rick Williams, and Rich Walcoff)

WEED, Gene:
KFWB, 1958-68; KLAC, 1971. Born
in 1935, Gene started in Texas radio when he was 17 years old
and attended North Texas State University. He went on to work
in Dallas, Omaha and Miami before joining KFWB.

The
"Weedy One" worked weekends at KFWB at the age of
23 while assigned to Armed Forces Radio and Television
Service in Hollywood. In early 1961, Gene was made assistant
pd to Jim Hawthorne. He moved to afternoon drive in 1961.
Except for a month during the infamous personality strike in
1961, Gene stayed with the station until the very end, on
March 10, 1968, having worked every shift.

In 1966, he was
voted top all-night dj in Billboard magazine's Radio
Response Ratings. He created the nationally syndicated Shivaree
tv rock show, which ran for three years and aired in more than 150
markets and seven countries overseas. He produced and directed over
200 of the mini-movies for recording artists such as Glen Campbell,
The Fifth Dimension, Creedence Clearwater and Debbie Boone. He has
produced and directed over 300 tv commercials and numerous
industrial and sales presentations.

As senior vp of television at dick clark
productions (dcp), Gene developed, produced and directed
major television series, specials and annual events. Each
year he produced and/or directed the Golden Globe Awards,
The Academy of Country Music Awards, The Soap Opera
Digest Awards and the Sea World/Busch Gardens Party.
In the early 1990s, Gene produced and directed the Hot
Country Nights series for NBC, which continues to air on
The Nashville Network. His other specials include Farm Aid
III and IV, The Golden Globes 50th Anniversary
Special,The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars and Prime
Time Country nightly on TNN. He also directed the
three-hour LiveAid concert for ABC. His work as a
producer/director earned him two first place awards for
creative excellence at the International Film Festival in
Chicago. A spokesman at dcp said, "Gene was one of the
foundational posts here."

Fellow KFWB dj Jimmy O'Neill
was "shocked" to learn of Gene's death. "I
hadn't seen Gene for 30 years when we ran into each other
about five years ago. I was struck by his kindness. He could
not have been nicer." Gene died of lung cancer on August
5, 1999, at the age of 64.

Weed, Steve: KIIS, 1977-80;
KHTZ, 1980. Steve is currently Senior VP of Programming for iHeartMedia
Fresno. Weiner,
Dan: KXTA, 2000-04; KTWV, 2004-07; KTWV/KNX/KRTH, 2007-09. Dan left his
position as head of the CBS/LA
cluster in March 2009 to join Fox Interactive Media. He's now vp/sales for the Western Region
of Pandora.

WEINER, Len: KMPC, 1992-93, pd.
Len arrived at KMPC to launch the all-Sports format from a
successful similar format at WFAN-New York. He attempted to model
KMPC after WFAN, down to the idea that in the morning-drive period,
a sports station needs "an anti-sports show" that appealed to a more
general audience. Robert W. Morgan was kept in place during the
format change.

Len told Steve Weinstein in a LA Times
profile that his goal was to draw women and casual sports fans,
which he felt could be done with the right personalities. A native
of Tom River, New Jersey, Lee graduated from Rutgers College with a
degree in human communication.

Prior to joining KMPC, he
was executive producer at WFAN-New York (1987-92), producer at NHBC
Radio (1984-87 and news writer for KYW-Philadelphia (1983-84). Len
joined ESPN Radio in late 1993 as pd. He was promoted to assistant
gm in the summer of 1998 and he oversees the daily operations and
concentrates on programming.

Len is program director for
all-Sports WAXY AM&FM ("The Ticket") in Miami. In
early 2018, he added pd duties at WQAM-Miami.

Weintraub, Roberta: KMPC, 1981-82. The former Los Angeles school board
member and president is an activist.Weir, Charlie: KUSC, 1999-2001. Charlie worked all-night at Classical KUSC.Weiss, Dave: KEZY, 1990-98; KXTA, 1998-2001;
XTRA Sports/KLAC, 2001-19. Dave, on-air known as DC Williams, is the promotions
and marketing director at all-Sports KLAC.Weiss,
Jonathan: KNX, 2006-17; KKJZ, 2006-07. Jonathan broadcasts traffic and he had a
weekend shift at all-Jazz KKJZ.

WEISSMAN,
Sharon: KLON, 1982-94. Sharon is the senior advisor
and transportation deputy to Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia,
previously served as board liaison to the Mayor’s Office from 2014
to 2016. She also served as chief of staff to Garcia when he was
vice mayor of Long Beach, to California State Senator Jenny Oropeza
and California State Assemblymember Tony Mendoza.

Sharon is
a member of the Board of Directors of the Long Beach Symphony
Orchestra, the Long Beach Public Library Foundation and is the
former chair of the Long Beach Fair Housing Foundation Board of
Directors, according to the release.

Prior to her work with
elected officials, Weissman was the director of the Richard and
Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center at Cal State Long Beach, the
station manager of KLON (now KKJZ) a jazz radio station and an
instructor in the field of radio, TV and film at CSULB.

WELLES, Dara:
KNX/fm, 1976-79; KRTH, 1979-80,
nd. Dara was born and raised in Milwaukee. "I attended Nicolet High
School, where a girl a year behind me did pretty well in
broadcasting. Her name was Oprah Winfrey."

Dara developed an
interest in radio at the college station at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She was a music major and performed as a singer,
but was always intrigued by the news department. She hung out and
learned to edit copy.

"I moved to L.A. after graduation to
be with my boyfriend. We broke up, but I got my first radio job at
KNX/fm." From 1979 to 1987, Dara was an anchor and correspondent for
NBC's youth radio network, "The Source." In the late 1980s, she was
a host on NBC's syndicated advice radio net "TalkNet." She went on
to host shows on WNYC and WABC-New York. The former WOR-NY newswoman
is now with Cablevision and Sirius/XM Radio.

WELLS, Don:
KMPC, 1961-72; KFWB, 1972-87.
Don was part of the original broadcast team for the Angels. Don
died October 3, 2002, in Switzerland after a long illness. He was 79.

Oh, the irony of it all. On the day
the Angels baseball team wins their first ever playoff series, it
was announced that Don Wells, part of the original broadcast team
for Gene Autry’s California Angels in 1961, had died.

Born in
Sacramento in 1923, Don grew up in Salinas, where, as a kid, he
could "tune in on our aging Kent radio" the play-by-play reports of
the San Francisco Seals and the Oakland Acorns of the Pacific Coast
League. After spending three years in World War II becoming a
Corporal, Don went to the Hal Styles School of Radio and Television.
"We didn't have tape recorders then but one of the school's
facilities was a large studio turntable that enabled me to record an
acetate disc for audition purposes," he told me when interviewed for
Los Angeles Radio People. A recreated play-by-play baseball game led
to a job at KSBW ("Salad Bowl of the World") as sports and program
director. At the Salinas station, he broadcast Class C ball games
along with local college football and basketball.

His next stop was KWBB-Wichita where he called
the action for the Wichita Indians. In the late '40s and early 1950s
Gordon McLendon created the Liberty Network, which recreated games
from wire services and Don would travel to various Major League cities to do
the game-of-the-day broadcasts. When the Liberty Network collapsed, Don
joined the White Sox broadcast team in Chicago where he worked for eight
years. He also did Big Ten football and basketball plus the NFL Chicago
Cardinals games before the franchise moved to Phoenix.

As the first announcer for the Angels, Don's
first broadcast partner was the "voice of the Rams," Bob Kelley.
After the 1972 season, Don joined KFWB doing sports reports for the next
fifteen years. When Don retired, he and his wife moved to Switzerland to
join his family. "We now have permanent residence in Switzerland and don't
plan to return to the U.S.A.," Don told me in 1997. Don's son is a "valued
employee" at the Village City Hall. Don and his wife owned a three-family
chalet in the village that is surrounded by the Alps. "When we retired it
was time for a restful climax to an oh-so-active 40 year career. I have
never forgotten all those who were so helpful during that long span of
time."

WELLS,
Jack: KABC, 1963-67. Jack was a talk show host at KABC for four years in the
1960s. He died June 27, 2010, from complications
of a stroke at a Los Angeles nursing home. He was 86.

Jack was a pioneering
broadcaster who hosted Baltimore's first morning tv show. Jack created and
hosted an LA tv show on KHJ/Channel 9, called The Age of Aquarius.
Wells decided to go into radio during World War II, when he served in Europe
as an Army radio operator with Chuck Thompson, who went on the become a
legendary Baltimore Orioles announcer. Wells also did voiceovers and guest
starred on shows such as Days of Our Lives, The Young and the
Restless and General Hospital.

Wells, Pam: KACE, 1987-89. Pam works at
"Majic 102"-Houston.Wells, Paul: KMET, 1986; KNAC,
1986-88. Paul hosts a syndicated show, "Lobster's Rock Box." He is
the co-founder/ceo at Flow Communications in San Francisco. Wells,
Sandy: KABC, 1998-2017. Sandy works at Radiate Media providing news and
traffic.Wells, Scott: KLON, 1983-2000. Scott left
KLON in early 2000. He teaches foreign language and has
been nominated for Disney's "Teacher of the Year"
award.Welsh, Pat: KROQ, 1979-84; KACD, 1995-96.
Pat is a professional golfer.Wendell, Bruce: KDAY, 1960; KBLA, 1967. The
longtime Capitol Records executive and baseball fanatic in
the mid-1990s joined Rotations promotion and marketing firm.

(Geoff Witcher, Bradley Wright, and Tom Watson)

Wendell, Johnny: KFI,
2002-04; KTLK, 2005-13. Johnny, also known as Johnny Angel when he writes for
the LA Weekly,
hosts "Southern
California Live With Johnny Wendell" every Sunday at 4 p.m. plus
fill-in on the Progressive station.

WENDI:
KIIS, 1990-96; KZLA, 1998-2001. The
former Miller Genuine Draft poster girl moved to mornings at
KZLA in the fall of 1999 and to middays in the Spring of
2000. She left the station in the fall of 2001and went on to Country
KSCS-Dallas.

Born Wendi Westbrook in Shreveport, she is also an
actress, appearing in Models, Inc., Silk Stalking,
Beverly Hills 90210, and Renegade. Wendi said that
she was an "ugly duckling" grouping up and was unpopular with the
in-crowd in high school. "It has been a huge motivatig factor in my
life trying to live up to the standards that other people set for
me," she admitted. She also spent a year as an MTV veejay.

Today she specializes in individual, family, small business,
employee Benefits and commercial drivers legal plans that allow
anyone to have access to the legal services they need for an
extremely low monthly fee!

Wennersten, Robert: KFAC, 1985-90; KKGO,
1991-96 and 1998-99. Robert was program director at Classical
KKGO. He is now retired and living in St. Joseph, Missouri.Werndl,
Bill: XTRA, 1996-2001. Bill was part of XX Sports Radio 1090AM in San Diego
until late 2008Werth, Paul: KRHM; KVFM; KNOB, KNAC, KFAC. Paul was a knowledgeable,
creative musical documentarian. On the KNOB his program was
called "Werth Listening To." He brought Bing Crosby
back to live performances with a concert at the Music Center.
His career began in the 1950s in New York, where he produced
concert performances for Harry Belafonte, the Weavers, Woody
Guthrie, the Modern Jazz Quartet and Stan Getz. He moved in
1957 to the Southland where he produced concerts and theater
shows for Dinah Washington, Herbie Mann and others. Paul
produced many radio specials including "This Is Steve
Allen" and "Johnny Green's World of Music." In
1972 Paul received a Billboard Air Personality award
while working at KFAC. He wrote and directed the Leukemia
Society radiothons for many years. Paul created an audio
history of Harry Truman titled "A Journey to
Independence." In 1992 he adapted and produced Neil
Simon's Sunshine Boys as the first in a series of Mark
Taper Forum Theater of the Air radio programs. Paul died on
December 20, 1996, of cancer. He was 69.

(Chick Watkins, Chuck Walsh, Cameron Ward, and Hamilton Williams)

WESHNER,
Skip: KRHM,
1957-64 and 1966-71; KNAC,
1972-74; KPFK,
1981; KFAC,
1973-79 and 1983-84. Born August 10, 1927, Skip hosted KFAC’s “Man
for All Music” show introducing many people to the music of Latin America,
as well as people like But & Travis, Hoyt Axton, Gordon Lightfoot,
Joni Mitchell. Many of these artists singled out their interviews
with Skip as being one of the highlights of their career.

He was married to Lynne Taylor of The
Rooftop Sings (Walk Right In), who died in 1979. Frank
Blau, president of Blau Systems has reels and reels of “his amazing
eclectic shows. He was a dear friend and a true presence in Los Angeles
radio.”

Before he arrived in the Southland,
Skip had a show on WBAI and WNCN in New York
called “Accent on Sound.”

This was the first "folk music" show heard in New York City.
Blind musician Josť Feliciano was probably first heard on Weshner's
show. During the first session, Feliciano accidentally fell down the
stairs of Weshner's duplex apartment. Weshner often broadcast from
Greenwich Village, including The Bitter End on Bleecker Street and
the Cafe Feenjon on MacDougal Street. At the New York Hi-Fi Show at
the New Yorker Hotel, around 1963, Weshner's live broadcast included
the then relatively unknown Bob Dylan.

He died in 1995.

WESLEY, Jim:
KFI, 1973-80. Jim is
president/ceo of Patterson Broadcasting and he is living in
Atlanta.

He arrived in 1973 at KFI radio,
having been hired as general manager of the then-newly
acquired Cox Broadcasting property. Cox had purchased KFI
for $15 million, at that time the highest amount ever paid
for a radio station. The 50,000-watt clear channel station
was having a tough time finding a format that would be more
successful.

“KFI is a massive operation. Turning it
around is like changing the course of the Queen Elizabeth –
it will take time," he told the LA Times at the
time of his arrival. Wesley’s first action was relinquishing
the broadcast rights of the MLB Dodgers. That move would
help propel KABC’s ratings reign, but Wesley had his eye on
finding an fm station.

A deal was reached with
Dallas broadcaster Gordon McLendon, to
purchase his KOST (103.5/fm) for $2.2 million. “I contacted
McLendon by telephone when I heard from our Washington
attorneys that he wanted to sell. We had been trying to make
a deal for an fm station in Los Angeles for several months.
I had met with several owners but could not reach an
agreement.

Jim continued: "In our first telephone
conversation, McLendon told me what he wanted for the
station. We agreed on the deal during a second telephone
call, which I made late in the evening from my kitchen at
home in Woodland Hills to Gordon in London. He was on his
way to an International conference of economists. Gordon and
I met with our attorneys in Washington a few days later to
work out the details of the purchase agreement. It was a
quick and very pleasant negotiation. Gordon was a brilliant
businessman and a delight to work with. He was one of the
most charming and creative men I have ever met. He talked a
lot about the development of his various formats, and
although he was in the process of moving out of radio, he
continued to think about new ideas for the medium and for
television. I had hoped to see him again at the closing at
his office in Dallas, but he was ill that day and we worked
with his lawyer. I never had the pleasure of talking with
him again.”

West,
Andy: KHJ, 1963. Andy died of cancer on April 3, 1975 in Reno. Andy gained
national fame for his vivid description of the shooting and struggle with Sirhan Sirhan following the killing of Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador
Hotel. West, Bert: KNX, late 1950s; KRLA, 1980-84.
Bert is retired and living in Palm Springs.West,
Charlie: KLOS, 1987-89, pd. Charlie died October 23, 2004. Charlie West died
in his sleep at his home in Tucson, on October 23 2004. West had informed
friends in August that he was in need of surgery for a brain tumor; the
cause of death is not yet known. Charlie arrived at KLOS in April 1987 after
a 10-year run at KMOD-Tulsa. In the spring of 1989, he formed his own
consultancy firm. West, Donald: KROQ, 1975-78. Donald has been
practicing law in Orlando since the early 1980s.

WEST,
Garrison: KSBR, 2005-19. Garrison came to the radio game in
2005 as a student taking classes at Saddleback
College’s Communication Arts (KSBR), under the
tutelage of Terry Wedel,John
Coleman and Tina Anderson.
Upon completion of the school’s curriculum, Garrison
took on two days a week on the Morning Drive,
holding down morning drive shifts on the Smooth Jazz
station for over 13 years.

In 2010, Garrison
was tied for 11th place with Andy Chanley on
an LARadio Poll of the best of the LARP.
Ironically, they were side by side again at KCSN in
2018, with Andy on the afternoon drive.

When
KCSN and KSBR became synchronized at 88.5/fm,
Garrison was one of the KSBR deejays hired to work
on the new mega-station. He enjoyed excellent
ratings on the midday music mix show from 11 a.m. –
3 p.m. weekdays. Garrison cites his interest in
radio as life-long with vivid memories of Dallas
area deejays Mike Selden and Jim Tabor.

A
big fan of Wolfman Jack, he
recommends Wolfman’s autobiography as a great
poolside read (if you haven’t already). Garrison is
married to KSBR news director, Dawn Kamber and
step father to her son, Neil Levin.

Phyllis was
born on Long Island and grew up in Atlanta and attended George State
University. She started her broadcast career in 1980 at WRAS. Before
arriving in the Southland she worked at WFOX-Gainesville, Georgia and WQXI-Atlanta.
At KIIS she was “Big Ron” O’Brien’s producer. In 1987 Phyllis was the
co-host (with Fraser Smith) of WTBS’ Night Tracks. When she left L.A.
she went on to do mornings at KAFE and KXFX-Santa Rosa, promotion director
at KUFX-San Jose, KCDU-Salinas and Metro Networks at KGO-San Francisco.
Phyllis was also morning host and promotion/marketing director at
Alternative rocker KMBY-Monterey.

Since
2003, Phyllis was working at WIMZ-Knoxville. Terry Gillingham, general
manager for South Central Radio in Knoxville, said Phyllis had been ill
since the summer of 2006. She was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular
cancer. She stopped appearing on the air in September 2006 and sought
treatment at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "It's a
terrible loss," said Gillingham, who first worked with West at KMBY. "She
was a very compelling and interesting woman. She was extremely intelligent
and she loved to say things just to get a reaction. She had a much greater
impact than any of us realized. People have called and told us how much she
really touched them."

West, Randy: KMGG, 1983-87. Randy is the
fill-in announcer on The Price Is Right and is the announcer on the
traveling Price Is Right stage show.West, Rick: KWIZ,
1976-78. Rick is vp of marketing and product planning at a Southern California
company.

West, Roland: KNAC, 1983-85; KROQ, 1986.
Roland now works in San Francisco for the Island Def Jam
Music Group.West, Scott: KIKF, 1984; KCRW 1996-99; KOLA,
1998-2000. Scott worked all-nights at the Inland Empire Oldies
station, KOLA.West, Sonny: KWIZ, 1980-82. Sonny, who worked as Greg Panattoni at
KWIZ, went on t0 KyXy in San Diego. In 2014, he ended his run 24-year run as
co-host of the "The Afternoon Ride with Sonny, Susan & Kevin. In his own
words ‘You’re not on the air for a long time, you’re on the air for a good
time!’ Westbrook, Wendi: SEE
Wendi

WESTGATE, Murray:
KPOL, 1963-69.
Murray,
a veteran of KPOL (1540 AM) for most of the sixties, died
July 26, 2014, from apparent complications of a stroke he
suffered a few months earlier. He was 85. About two weeks
after Westgate’s death, he was posthumously inducted into
the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. We missed
his passing five years ago, so we are now updating his entry
for posterity.

Murray was an independent
entrepreneur with business interests in the Far East. He was
the Sacramento reporter for KPOL, providing a number of
phone reports daily. He eventually joined the L.A. operation
full-time. In 1969, Murray moved to Las Vegas where
he broadcast news for a number of radio and tv stations.
Eventually he became the longtime director of public affairs
for Nevada Power and Light.

Westgate was born
September 5, 1928, in Saskatchewan, Canada, later graduating
from Midwest Broadcasting College in Chicago. He began his
career in Canadian radio. Prior to coming to Nevada,
Westgate served as a correspondent for 23 radio and tv
stations nationwide and all three major television networks.

In 1969, Westgate relocated to Reno and worked as a
reporter for KTVN-TV, Channel 2. A year later, he settled in
Las Vegas, where he received several awards for covering the
education beat for radio station KLAV, of which he was news
director.

In 1972, Westgate was appointed news
director for KLAS-TV, Channel 8 and worked for most of the
tv stations over the year. In 1978, Westgate ran
unsuccessfully for the Clark County Commission. In recent
years, Westgate split residency between Thailand and Las
Vegas, serving as president of the Thailand-America
Educational Foundation, Inc., a Nevada-based, non-profit
corporation, which promoted educational and cultural
exchange between Thailand and the United States.

WESTHEIMER, Dr. Ruth:
KFI, 1983-84. Before Howard Stern, Dr. Ruth
Westheimer, known as 'Dr. Ruth' was a breakthrough on sexual issues.
The former kindergarten teacher turned sex guru, 'Dr. Ruth' broke
new ground on talk radio. On her show she dispensed frank and
sexually explicit advice. She borrowed from a Supremes song when she
discussed premature ejaculation: "you can't huwwy love."

Ruth was born in Germany in 1928, where she lost her parents and
grandparents to the Nazi regime and grew up in a Swiss orphanage.
She earned a B.A. degree in psychology at the Sorbonne and had a
daughter by a French lover. She migrated to Israel and became a
kindergarten teacher. Dr. Ruth came to America in 1956 knowing
little English and three years later earned a master's in sociology
from New York's New School for Social Research. Her doctorate is in
the interdisciplinary study of the family, not sexuality. She has
written 14 books, one called The Value of Family: A Blueprint
for the 21st Century.

The psychosexual therapist
started sex counseling in the early 1970s.

Westman, Dick: KLAC, 1959-60. Unknown.Westwood, Denise: KNAC, 1977-80; KROQ,
1980-82; KMET, 1982-86; KNX/fm, 1986-89; KEDG, 1989; KLIT,
1990; KLOS, 2000-16. Denise spent a decade during the 90s working in San
Diego radio. In 2000, she began working weekends and fill-in at KLOS. She
left the Classic Rock station in early 2016.Wexler, Paul: KOST; KWST. Paul
was the voice of God in the movie Ten Commandments. He
died of leukemia in the mid-1980s.Whatley, Dixie: KJOI,
1978-79. The former host and correspondent for Entertainment Tonight
and co-critic with Rex Reed on At the Movies, hosted a morning
entertainment show in Boston for many years. Dixie is now a noted sculptor.
Four of her works are owned by rock legend Eric Clapton. Her sister is
Susanne Whatley.

WHATLEY, Susanne:
KHJ, 1981-85; KFI, 1986-2001;
KLAC,
2001-02; KFWB, 2002-09; KPCC, 2010-18. Susanne left her anchor chair at KFWB following a
format flip in September 2009. She is a news anchor at KPCC.

After
graduating from USC and circling the globe with a backpack for a
year, she began her career as a general-assignment field reporter
covering courts, crime, quakes, fires, floods, and politics for KRTH
and as an L.A. correspondent for national radio networks including
the Associated Press. She served over a decade as the Hollywood
correspondent for the A.P.'s "Portfolio" news magazine, interviewing
hundreds of film and tv stars, directors and writers.

She
also hosted weekly live reports for the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation and stations in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Her honors include Golden Mikes and APTRA awards for Best Newscast
and Best News Writing. Additional awards from those and other
professional organizations include first place in spot news,
documentary, entertainment and feature reporting and use of feature
sound. In 2009, she jumped into television and currently hosts
"Healthline," a weekly cable interview show.

Susanne was
born and raised in the Pasadena area and enjoys a deep appreciation
of the region's people, places and peculiarities. She is an orange
belt in Shaolin Kempo karate, and at peace with the fact her young
daughters will always outrank her in the sport.

Wheatley, Bill: KRLA, 1959; KFWB, 1965-66.
Bill passed away in Broward County, Florida in the mid-1990s.Wheel,
Christian: KIIS, 1998-2005; KBIG, 2005-09; KRTH, 2010-14; KFWB, 2011-14. Christian worked weekends at MY/fm until a Clear
Channel downsizing in the spring of 2009. He hosted Let's Talk Tech
at KFWB until a format flip in September 2014. He did fill-in at K-EARTH
until September 2014. After a stint with Apple Music / Beats 1, Christian is
involved in numerous ventures.

(Rich Watson, Brett Winterble, and
Bill Wright)

Wheeler, Mark: KMDY, 1986-89; KNJO, 1989-96;
KSCA, 1996-97; KRTH, 1997-2002. Mark reports traffic for a
number of Southland radio stations including KRTH and KRLA and news at KLON/KKJZ.Whelihan, Kelly: KFWB,
1992-2009.
Kelly was a news editor at all-News KFWB until mid-2009.Whitcomb,
Ian: KIEV, 1977-80; KROQ, 1980-84; KCRW, 1986-91; KPCC, 1991-96. Ian, who
burst on the music scene in 1965 with the Top 10 hit, You Turn Me On,
has a show on Sirius/XM Satellite radio.White, Brian:
KREL, 1970-71; KDAY, 1976-77; KIIS, 1977.
Brian is operations director and afternoon jock at Oldies WKOO-Jacksonville,
North Carolina. White, Dave: KCBS, 1993-96. Dave is working
in Detroit radio.White, Jack: KJLH, 1965-67. Last
heard, Jack
was living in Colorado.White,
Jamie: KYSR, 1998-2006. Jamie was part of the morning team of "Jamie, Frosty
& Frank" at "Star 98.7" until September 15, 1999, when Danny Bonaduce joined
her for a two-person team.
Danny
left in the summer of 2005 and she was teamed with Mike Roberts (Stench) and
Jack Heine until late 2006. She's now working mornings at "Alice" in Denver.White, Wood: KDAY, 1987. Unknown.Whitesides, Barbara: KPOL, 1978; KNNS; KFI,
1980-93; KFWB, 1996. Barbara is teaching at Palomar College, near San Diego.Whitfield, Mitchell: KMPC,
2003-05. Mitchell was
part of the
morning show at all-Sports 1540 The Ticket.Whitlock, Mark:
KACE, 1986-95; KFI, 1990. The African American talk show host left KACE in
1995 when Cox Enterprises bought the station.Whitman,
Brian: KIIS, 1994-2005; KABC, 2000-05; KLSX, 2005-08; KRLA, 2012-19. Brian partnered with
Tim Conway, Jr. at KLSX for the Conway & Whitman nightly show until leaving
in March 2008. Brian's comedy bits appear on various morning
shows. He's now co-anchor of the morning show at KRLA 870AM.Whitman, Don: KXLA, 1957. Unknown.

(Mark Wallengren and Wendy Williams)

Whitney, April: KROQ, 1980-92; KEZY,
1993-97. April has an event production company and has returned to school to
work on her Masters in psychology. She would like to be a radio
psychologist.

WHITNEY,
Marty: KYSR, 2016-18. Marty joined Alt 98-7 for
middays in the fall of 2016. He voicetracked the show from KIOZ-San
Diego. He left his midday slot in the summer of 2018 and continued
with nights at KIOZ.

His passions are
music, swap meets, football, boxer dogs, beach days, fatherhood and
being an awesome-not-too-cheesy wedding DJ on the weekend.

Whittaker, Debbii: KGFJ, 1993-94. Debbii
changed her air name in 2001 to Toni Terrell. After stops in Colorado and
Texas, she is now the apd and an air talent at WHRP-Huntsville, Alabama.Whittaker, Gary: KBBQ.
Last heard, Gary worked at
KHMO-Hannibal, Missouri.

WHITTINGHILL, Dick:
KIEV, KGFJ, KMPC,
1950-79. For three decades on KMPC, every morning Southern
Californians were "Whittinghilled." In the 1950s
and 1960s, KMPC was "The Station of the Stars" -
the personification of MOR radio - and Dick Whittinghill was
the #1 star in the galaxy. He died January 24, 2001,
following complications from colon surgery. He was 87.

In the 1940s,
Dick was a singer with The Pied Pipers, a vocal ensemble from
the Big Band years that sang with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
He was born March 5, 1913, and began his radio career in his
hometown at KPFA-Helena, Montana, making a stop in Denver
before arriving in the Southland to work at KIEV and at KGFJ.
He then had an incredible quarter of a century with Gene
Autry's KMPC, beginning in 1950. His old morning rival Bob
Crane said it best: "Whittinghill has likability."
He was described as steady, honest and faithful to his
audience. Crane continued, "Whit's a flag-waver. He
likes golf and booze. He says so on the air and he's
completely honest and likable."

On his 25th anniversary,
Dick commented: "What I'm doing is basically the same
format that I've used since 1954. We'll go with an
instrumental, a boy vocal, then a girl vocal, up tempo...you
just can't play the same type of music constantly." What
he did do constantly was an hourly "Story Record,"
in which Dick told a joke that was punctuated by the lyrics
from a song. His engineer, Hal Bender, did bg and voices for
Dick. Part of his morning ritual was his breakfast break
during a half-hour newscast, when he would leave the station
and walk two blocks down Sunset Boulevard to Norm's, where a
plate was already prepared with a hamburger patty and tomato
slices. His morning team included traffic reporter Paul
"Panther" Pierce, Herb Green, Dave DeSoto, John
McElhinney and news director Tom Wayman. In 1957, Dick was
co-chairman of the high-profile Southern California Heart
Fund drive. Dick never made any bones about why he loved
radio.

In an LA Times profile, he said he enjoyed the
money and did the morning show because "it's more money
and I can get away early for golf every day." He hung
out daily at the Lakeside Golf Club in Toluca Lake. "The
disc jockey," he once said, "is the lowest rung on
the show business ladder. There's no talent required for this
whatsoever. Believe me. I should know, I've been doing it
long enough." In a 1978 interview, Dick said, "I
don't believe in ratings and surveys. The way you know you're
doing well is to look at your log; if you have a bunch of
commercials in there, you know you'll be back the next
day." He valued the friendships with his sponsors and
advertisers: "I play golf with some of the fellows.
Cadillac has been with me about the longest." Dick made
a commitment to never tease the sponsors. His show had
something for everyone. He had a number of trademark features
that his audience could always count on: soap opera lampoons
of "Helen Trump," "On This Day in
History," and he ended the show with a minute or so of
an instrumental.

When he retired from the morning show on
KMPC in 1979, he said, "You keep saying to yourself that
it has to happen sometime but when you finally make up your
mind, it becomes kind of scary. I'm perfectly reconciled to
the fact that I've been here long enough and have nothing
more to prove." In 1976, he wrote his best-selling
autobiography (with Don Page) Did You Whittinghill This
Morning? He was immortalized in the Hollywood Wax Museum.
In 1982, Dick went to KPRZ and got to sleep in by working
afternoon drive. The "Music of Your Life" format
was eventually abandoned and the station was renamed KIIS/AM.
"The real tragedy was not my leaving the air but rather
the city's loss of one more good music station." Dick
was featured in hundreds of tv shows and movies. Whittinghill
summed up his journey: "I just stumble through
life."

Jeff started his audio career while at St. Mary's University of
Minnesota from 1979-81. He studied mass communications at Michigan
State University and earned a bachelor's degree in business
management from the University of Iowa.

In addition to
working at KABC, Jeff narrates and produces audio books for
self-published authors and at University Press Audiobooks.

WICKES,
Don: KABC, KRLA,
XTRA, KFI/KOST, KWKW. Don
worked in
radio sales and
KCOP/Channel 13. He died on
February 19, 2010. He had been struggling for many
years with cancer. Don
was born in the Bronx on September 25,
1931. He worked as a sales representative in
the radio and tv industry for over 40 years.

In his
forties Don went to night school and studied
law while continuing to work during the day
as a sales executive. He passed the bar the
first time he took the test and left the
broadcasting industry for five years and
practiced law. He then rejoined the radio
industry as a sales executive and also had a
law practice.

After
retiring, he did pro-bono law work. During
his career, Don was very active in the
Milline Club and for a number of years
helped on the production of the annual
Milline Show. The Milline Club was legendary
in the Los Angeles radio and tv industry.
Don had many friends in the industry and was
admired and beloved by all who knew him. He
was a genuinely decent and loyal person,
said SCBA prexy Mary Beth Garber.

WILBRAHAM,
Craig: KKBT, 1991-99. Craig passed away August 15, 2010, at the age of 63.
Craig was vp/gm at KKBT
(92.3/fm, ‘The BEAT’)
for much of the 90s. In
2000, Craig worked for
Premiere Traffic
Network. Most recently
he was the western sales
manager for XM Satellite
until the company merged
with Sirius.

Born and raised in
Detroit, he served his
country as a Marine in
Vietnam. Upon returning
from the war he
completed his bachelor
degree at Oakland
University and went on
to a successful career
in broadcast management.
Craig got his start in
1977 as an Account
Executive for Christal
Radio in Detroit and was
promoted to run their
Chicago operation
shortly thereafter. He
then spent time as the
general manager for
FM-100 in Chicago before
moving on to Barnstable
Broadcasting in Boston
as a vp.

Wilbo [as
his friends knew him] took
special pleasure in witnessing
the success and growth of the
many appreciative individuals he
mentored and tutored over the
years.

Wilberding,
Jason: KTWV, 2000-04; SBS, 2004-08. Jason joined Spanish Broadcasting System
as vp/DOS in late Spring 2004 and became vp of sales at English/Spanish KXOL.
In 2009, he joined Premiere Networks as vp of sales. Wilbon,
Michael: KSPN, 2007-09. Michael hosts PTI (Pardon the Interruption) with
Tony Kornheiser at ESPN.

WILCOX,
Brent: KCRW, 1980s. Brent died unexpectedly in Girdwood, Alaska on
February 20, 2012. He was 55.

Brent was born in Pasadena, and grew up in
Rancho Santa Fe. He attended La Jolla Country Day School, The Choate
School in Wallingford, Connecticut and graduated with honors from
the film school at UCLA. He loved to write and he loved music but
most of all he loved sharing his special perspectives and special
musical selections on public radio.

Brent’s passion for public radio led to over
30 years on air and fans worldwide. His first show was in Los
Angeles on KCRW with his show FRGK (Funny Rock God Knows), then
moving to Cambria, California, he took his fans to “Dreamland” in
San Luis Obispo. For the last 11 years, Brent shared his love for
world music, progressive and alternative rock, avant-garde, and
experimental music with his extended family at Girdwood’s
independent radio station KEUL. His radio show “Smoke and Mirrors”
aired every Sunday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. He was also the station’s
Jazz music director.

He moved to Alaska and started working at Alyeska
Resort in 2001 as a doorman. He was quickly tapped to be a reservationist
where he moved up the ranks over the years. Brent was promoted to Revenue
Manager in the fall of 2009 where he has been a critical part of the hotel’s
pricing and forecasting team.

Adept with technology platforms and complex
hospitality booking systems, Brent worked hand-in-hand with a variety of
hotel departments in establishing sound practices and policies for hotel
rates, packages and overall guest service.

WILDE, Rita:
KEZY, 1978-82; KLOS,
1983-2009; KSWD, 2011-17; KLOS, 2017-19.
Rita worked
evenings at 100.3/The Sound until the station was sold to the
Educational Media Foundation (K-LOVE Christian stations). She now does
fill-in at KLOS.

What started out as an internship at a small station in Orange
County (KEZY) has grown into a full-fledged radio career that ranges
from her own on-air shifts locally, to nationally syndicated
programs as well as international radio features. She is a radio
broadcasting legend.

Rita

joined KLOS in 1983 and did mornings until Mark & Brian
arrived. She served as the music director of KLOS, hosted
the daily "Rock Report" for years, and was the program director for
over a decade. Rita has a couple of obsessions – the Angels and
football. She was in a plane crash the first and only time she went
skydiving. Rita celebrated a quarter of a century with KLOS. Rita
is one of the radio industry’s most recognizable female voices.

Rita moved to Orange County when she was 13 years old. After
graduating high school, she began taking classes at her local
college. It was there that her Speech teacher, after observing her
distinctive voice and extensive music knowledge, suggested she might
be well suited for radio. As Rita put it, “For me, at that time, it
was like a bolt of lightning. It was like, ‘Radio! Of course!’”

WILDER, Chuck:
XTRA, 1971; KIEV, 1971-2000;
KRLA, 2001; KPLS, 2001-03; KSPA, 2005-07. Chuck produced the George Putnam Show,
heard
at KSPA and Cable Radio Network, for decades. Chuck hosts the CRN show solo.
He has been recognized by Defense of Veterans Memorial Project of
the American Legion Department of California for his efforts on
behalf of fellow veterans and American freedom.

"Chuck
Wilder - and George Putnam before him - live by the code of duty,
honor, country," said Rees Lloyd, co-founder and director of the
Defense of Veterans Memorial Project. "They have done so much good
for our veterans." Lloyd presented Wilder with a plaque for
recognizing the honoree as "a veteran, patriot, radio host and
journalist extraordinaire."

"Chuck exemplifies what makes
our country great," said Michael J. Horn, CRN's
ceo/president. "He honorably served in the military, actively
promotes veterans causes and stirs American passion every day on his
show. All of us at CRN are very proud of him." Chuck started with
armed forces radio aboard the USS Matthews and then became one of
the highest rated radio rock jocks in Texas. He hosted a tv dance
show on two ABC stations in Texas and New Mexico and acted as music
director, program director and producer. His honors include
Billboard DJ of the year, and a member of the board of
directors Academy of Country Music. Chuck gave up his exciting
career to hook up with George Putnam. Since Putnam's death in 2008,
Chuck has hosted "Talk Back."

Wildman, Diane: KMET, 1973.
She went on to KPFK.

WILEY,
Marcellus: KSPN,
2011-18. The former NFL star and ESPN
analyst joined
Max Kellerman to
form the “Max &
Marcellus” show
that
aired weekdays from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. Their show
launched 1.24.11. After
a series of co-hosts,
Marcellus left KSPN in
early summer 2018 and is
now with Fox Sports.

A
native of Southern
California, Wiley
attended St. Monica High
in Santa Monica, where
he was an academically
and athletically honored
student. Wiley, like his
co-host Kellerman, is a
graduate of Columbia
University.

A
10-year NFL veteran,
Wiley played for four
teams during his career,
including Buffalo Bills
(1997-2000), San Diego
Chargers (2001-03),
Dallas Cowboys (2004)
and Jacksonville Jaguars
(2005-06). Wiley was
also voted to the Pro
Bowl and was named one
of Pro Football
Weekly’s Top 50
Players in the NFL.

After the
NFL, Wiley turned to
broadcasting as an NFL
commentator for ESPN. He has
appeared on ESPN programs such
as First Take, NFL Live,
SportsCenter and ESPNEWS
and served as contributing
analyst for ESPN’s Super Bowl
coverage. In addition, Marcellus
co-hosts Winners Bracket,
with Michelle Beadle, on ABC.

“I feel
like I've just been signed to
the Dream Team and we have home
court advantage throughout the
Olympics,” said Wiley. “L.A.,
get ready - your son is back!”

“I am
excited to team Max and
Marcellus together,” said
Mike Thompson, KSPN pd.
“Marcellus will bring a unique
and well-rounded perspective
that very few broadcasters could
provide – as a scholar,
professional athlete and native
Southern Californian. Max and
Marcellus’ humor and insider
knowledge, on both a local and
national level, will engage and
connect with our fans.”

In 2012, he appeared on
Millionaire Matchmaker. In
the fall of 2018, he released
an autobiography, Never Shut
Up: The Life, Opinions and
Unexpected Adventures of an NFL
Outlier.

Wilkinson,
Bud: KSUR, 2003. Bud hosted "Broadway's Biggest Hits" on
"K-Surf." His show was syndicated around the county.

WILLARD,
Mark: KMPC, 2003-07; KSPN, 2008-14.
Mark was part
of the morning sports show with Roger Lodge
at KMPC 1540/The Ticket until the spring of 2007, when the
station was sold to Radio Korea. He then moved to KSPN and
co-hosted a show with Mychal Thompson until
late summer of 2014.

Mark, a Foster City native who is a
lifelong fan of Bay Area sports teams, is now part of KNBR in
Francisco.

WILLES, Ray:
KGIL, 1966; KBIG/KBRT, 1968-77.
Ray was pd at KOIL-Omaha, worked at WHK-Cleveland, KISN-Portland, and KDEO-San
Diego before arriving in Southern California in 1966 to work at KGIL. In the
mid-70s he teamed with
Gary
Gray in morning drive at KBIG. Ray went on to a very active
VO career and he was the voice of the Barbara
Walters Specials for well over a decade. He retired in 1999, but
his voice was heard periodically over the years on commercials. “I first met
Ray when I was 15 years old,” said KRTH’s Shotgun
Tom Kelly.

“Ray was one of my mentors. He used to cut voice tracks
on Saturday afternoons and let me run the board at KDEO while he was
in the production room. Ray was always good to me and we became
great friends. Ray was one of the first people to call me and
congratulate me when I got the job at K-Earth 101 in 1997. Ray will be
missed by many of his colleagues and friends in the Los Angeles community.”
Ray died February 23, 2010 at
the age of
74.Williams, Brad LaRay: KACE, 1981-87;
KKGO/KKJZ/KJQI/KNNS, 1989-97; KKJZ, 2007-17. Brad worked mornings at
all-Jazz, KKJZ until the summer of 2017.

WILLIAMS,
Bruce: KGIL 1989. His widely heard, enlightening
show was heard locally on KGIL in the 80s. The TalkNet host died
February 9, 2019, at the age of 86. His syndicated show ran for more
than 29 years. Bruce was 81 when he hung up his headphones for the
final time in 2013, signing off as he always did by saying, “Keep in
touch.”

Spanning a
career that lasted more than three decades, Williams created a loyal
evening listenership with his informative and entertaining program.
He seemed to have a logical and common sense approach to all
problems.

Born on February 18, 1932, the Hall of
Famer didn’t begin his radio career until he was in his forties. His
eclectic background provided enough experience resulting in a
compelling Talk show. Bruce seemed to know a little bit about a lot
of things.

After serving in the Air Force during the
Korean conflict and graduating from Newark State College, he opened
a pre-school named after his children. He spent time driving an ice
cream truck in New York City. He was also a taxi driver and drove a
beer truck. He also sold insurance, owned a flower shop, a car
rental agency, a barber shop and he owned and operated several
nightclubs.

In 1975, he started a
general Talk show at WCTC (1450 Talk Radio) in New Jersey, called “At Your
Service.” He eventually landed at WMCA-New York. NBC was looking to launch a
nightly advice-oriented talk show, and Bruce was chosen and his program
launched in November, 1981. It was from this platform that Bruce’s
reputation as a broadcaster blossomed.

In 1999, he was inducted
into the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago. Bruce authored six
financial and real estate advice books as well as a syndicated advice column
called Smart Money.

Williams, Charlie: KFOX, 1960-72. Charlie moved to Nashville and built a home on a
lake. He managed Bobby Bare and hosted a talk show on WSIX.
Charlie passed away in 1995.Williams,
Dave: KRTH, 1973; KABC, 2000-01; KNX, 2002; KFWB, 2002-03; KNX, 2004-08;
KABC, 2009-10. Dave was the morning drive co-news anchor at all-News KNX until
late 2008. He went on to afternoon news anchor at KABC and left in the
summer of 2010. He's now a news anchor at KLIF-Dallas.Williams, DC: KEZY, 1994. SEE Dave Weiss.Williams, Dudley: KGIL, 1966-70. Unknown.

WILLIAMS,
Eric: KFWB, 1972-2009. Eric, veteran of all-News
KFWB from 1972 until his retirement in 2009, passed away June 11, 2014. He was
diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2010 and apparently it had spread to
his brain. He was 69.

Eric was unemployed for a year before joining KFWB, but
went on to celebrate over three decades with the all-News operation.

Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Eric grew up in Salem.
“My father worked at WBZ-Boston for 20 years and he would take me to the station
to watch him work.”

Eric studied journalism at El Camino Junior College and San
Jose State. At San Jose State he could waive an internship if he secured a
full-time job. He walked into KXRX-San Jose in 1966 and was offered a job as a
news reporter. A year later he joined San Jose’s KNTV/TV, where he worked in
the news department for five years.

“In 1970 I got caught in the recession and the station laid
off half of the 18 person news team.” Eric would leave the Bay Area and land in
Southern California. At KFWB, Eric covered several national disasters and
commercial airliner crashes. “During the MidEast War I wrote hours and hours of
copy.”

Williams, Gary: KKGO, 1994-97.
Gary left radio and became a movie actor in Bruno, starring Sasha
Baron Cohen and Inspector Morse, starring John Thaw. He is a
full-time writer, a television host, and he's developing a pilot for a talk
show on the paranormal. Gary lives in Los Angeles.Williams, Hamilton: KCBH, 1966;
KFAC. Hamilton died June 30, 2006. He was 83.Williams,
Hugh: KFWB, KGFJ. Hugh earned an Emmy for his work on AM Los Angeles at
KABC/tv. Hugh died August 6, 1994. He was 63.Williams,
J. Otis: KKJZ, 2006, J. Otis works weekends at the all-Jazz station.Williams, Jeff: KABC, 1974-76; KTNQ,
1978-79; KFWB, 1982-84; KIIS, 1984-87; KTNQ/KLVE, 1993-2006.
Jeff is head of research at the Spanish stations.

WILLIAMS, Johnny:
KRLA, 1965; KHJ, 1965-74.
Johnny lives in Hawaii and hosts premiere radio Web site,
440int.com.
He is best known as the all-night man during KHJ's "Boss Radio" days

He was born in Fort Scott,
Kansas and lived there until he was 5 years old. He came to the
Southland from Denver where he was "Dapper Dan, the All-Night Man"
via a stop-over as pd at KCBQ-San Diego. When Gary Mack
left KRLA to join his old friend Bill Drake
at the newly formatted KHJ, Johnny was brought on to KRLA in the
spring of 1965. Johnny only worked one weekend shift before becoming
one of the original "Boss Jocks." He did nine to noon for a brief
time in early 1967.

In Billboard magazine's Radio
Response Ratings of 1966, Johnny was voted top all-night jock. In
1975 he went to work for his old friend Ted Atkins
at WTAE-Pittsburgh. In 1985 Johnny left WTAE and started a
Pittsburgh advertising agency with his wife, Carol. It was during
this time that Johnny developed an interest in computing and
telecommunications. He started a bulletin board system in
Pittsburgh. In late 1991 he and Carol closed the agency and moved to
the Islands.

“Hawaii is our most favorite location on
earth." He worked for the two all-News stations in Hawaii until
1995. He has been surfing the Net and running the “best” radio
Website.

WILLIAMS, Morgan:
KGFJ; KBCA; KRLA;
KFI/KOST; KBIG, 1984-98. Morgan worked at KBIG for 13 years
and passed away in her Mid-Wilshire home after a short but
difficult battle with lung cancer on July 17, 1999. She was 67.

Born
Morgan Spencer on February 29, in Roselle, New Jersey. She was first heard in the
1950s as Margi, sidekick to Hunter Hancockat KGFJ.
"Hunter thought his name was so unusual and not many
women were named Morgan, so I became Margi," Morgan told
me when I interviewed her for my book, Los Angeles Radio
People.

A graduate of William and Mary University, Morgan
worked in media across the country. In the 1960s, she was a
news reporter at KABC/Channel 7, and KHJ/Channel 9 (now
called KCAL/TV). In the '70s she had a long stint with KFI
radio covering news and public affairs. In the '80s and '90s,
she was public affairs director at KBIG, where she was known
for her unique and intimately styled weekly long-form
interviews on "The Big Picture."

Morgan married the
lead singer of the Platters, Tony Williams.

Her love affair
with radio began with a love for her grandfather. "When
I was three or four I would sit at my grandfathers feet
and listen to the radio news with him. I would say Papa
Charlie what does the man mean? And he would answer me
like a grownup. He said if I was old enough to ask the
questions, I was entitled to an answer. He never told me to
hush." Morgan ended my interview with the following that
seems somewhat appropriate: "I have truly been blessed
in this life."

Williams, Rick: KACE,
1970-71; KNAC, 1977, KSCA, 1994. Rick is the A&R
supervisor at DCC Compact Discs in L.A.Williams, Travis: KACE, 1970-71; KTBT/KORJ/KDIG,
1971-76; KOCM, 1974 and 1976-77. Since 1996, Travis has been
a regulatory affairs analyst with the County of Los Angeles.

(Ian Whitcomb, Mark Wheeler, Gary Williams, and
Debbii Whittaker)

Williams, Verne: KABC, KFWB, KFI. Verne was one of the original anchors when KFWB went
all-News. Born in New York, he grew up in Texas and
Massachusetts. He started out on WESX-Salem, Massachusetts
and later spent two decades with WBZ-Boston. Vernes son
Eric has been with KFWB for 25 years. When Verne left the
Southland in 1971 he moved to Sacramento and San Francisco.
While he was in the Bay Area Verne was the executive
assistant to the mayor of San Francisco. Verne passed away in
1992.Williams, Vince: KFWB, 1968-70. Unknown.

WILLIAMS, Warren:
KNX/fm, 1987-88; KLSX,
1991-96, pd. Warren died February 21, 2010, of
a heart attack. He was 54. "It could have been an aneurism in the heart, but
the doctors aren’t sure because there wasn’t any particular stress with
Warren,” said his wife, Kim.

Warren arrived for his first visit in the
Southland from KSRR/KKHT-Houston for morning drive at KNX/fm. He left in
1988 to program WOFX-Cincinnati and returned to the Southland in 1991 to be
assistant pd at KLSX, later becoming pd in 1994.

Born June 13, 1955, in
Nyack, New York, Warren graduated from Penn State University with a B.A. in
speech communication. While doing post-graduate work, he produced Coach Joe
Paterno’s pre-game show that aired on the 80-station Penn State Football
Network. In 1981 he programmed KATT-Oklahoma City and three years later
became pd of KDKB-Phoenix, which is where Kim and Warren met. Warren had an
active production company that was responsible for the writing and
production of all radio advertising for Fox Sports in the mid-90s and he
created the national radio launch campaign for the conversion of Prime
Sports to Fox Sports Net. He worked for Larry Kahn with Sports Radio Network
and was the voice and did the production. He was also the voice talent for
Sinclair Broadcast Group for many of their Fox TV stations around the
country.

WILLIAMS,
Wendy: KDAY,
2007-08. Wendy had a syndicated radio show, heard on KDAY, until
landing a tv talk show in 2008.She left radio when she was given a
6-week tryout for a syndicated tv show. It worked and audiences love
the audacious host who is willing to say almost anything. Her The Wendy Williams Showwas
renewed through 2020. She was profiled in a full-page February 2017
issue of Fortune. Some highlights:

"Born and raised in New Jersey.
Her parents are academics with three master's degrees between them.
Wendy has written seven book. They aren't typical celebrity pabulum.
Instead, she writes fiction. Her latest is a romance novel.

Wendy
has a Home Shopping Network clothing line that has grown 75% year over
year in gross sales.

Her charity, the Hunter Foundation, helps
families affected by drug addiction, which she once struggled with."

Williams, William F.: KDAY, 1960; KBLA,
1965-67; KBBQ, 1966-67; KRLA, 1968-69; KPPC, 1971-72. Since
1984 William has been living and writing in the mountains.

WILLIS, Scott:
KLON, 1992-2002/KKJZ,
2002-07. Scott hosted "Mostly Bop" weekend show at the Jazz station
and he was music director until the spring of 2007 when there was a
management change. Since 2011, he has been music director of
JazzRadio.com.

Scott has over a quarter of a century
experience as a broadcaster in commercial, non-commercial, and
Internet radio working as a program director, music director,
producer and host. He is currently music director of several online
radio channels and can be heard hosting jazz programs as part of the
in-flight entertainment for domestic and international airlines as
well. Twice nominated as jazz personality of the year by Gavin
magazine, he has been an industry panelist and moderator at numerous
jazz conferences including Jazz Times, Jazz Week, and the
International Association of Jazz Education. Scott has also been
heard on the air as a contributor to NPR's Morning Edition, News &
Notes, and at NPRMusic.org, and has been the senior producer and
host for several national broadcasts including the annual Playboy
Jazz Festival and the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival.

Over
the years, his interest in the history and stories behind the music he loves
has led him to create a number of unique programs, including most recently
"Talkin' Jazz with Scott Willis," a syndicated jazz feature program launched
in the Spring of 2007 and carried on over 30 stations nationwide during its
time in production.

As a music supervisor, Scott has worked on
independent film and television commercials for several production
companies. He continues to be called on as a consultant for jazz
documentaries, film soundtracks, reissue recordings, and archival holdings.

Wills, Maury: KABC. Maury, a former star
with the LA Dodgers and host of SportsTalk at KABC, lives in
the South Bay. He has a role in the Legends program within the Dodger
organization.

Wilson, Andy: KRHM, 1966;
KPPC, 1966-68. Unknown.Wilson, Bob: KDAY, 1969-72. The former owner
of R&R was involved for a time with the syndication of Wolfman Jack.

WILSON,
George: KIQQ,
1980-85. Born George Wilson Crowell on July 18, 1929, in
Katonah, New York, he made his marketing presence felt with the
Bartell chain. George, starting out as a professional baseball
player, became a sports announcer and then a disc jockey in the
1950’s. He died April 10, 2013 of complications from a heart attack
two weeks earlier.

George
was pd of WOKY-Milwaukee. In the early 1970s he was gm of
WDRQ-Detroit. In a multi-part interview in
Billboard in 1975, George, as the executive vp of Bartell Media's
radio division commented: "Chuck Blore was always
kind of like my hero. He used to have phenomenally great ideas and I
would just find out what he was going to do next week, then I'd do
it."

George
has since moved to Albuquerque. As
a broadcast executive with Bartell Broadcasting and the Starr group
of stations he was twice honored as National Program Director and
named by his peers as Radio Executive of the Year. George served as
station manager, President and board member of major radio broadcast
groups. He served on the Nominating Committee of the "Hit Parade"
Hall of Fame and opearted "George Wilson's Memory Tunes" website.

Wilson,
Marina: KOCM, 1988; KIKF, 1990-92; KEZY, 1992-96; KLIT, 1992-94; KOST,
1995-96; KACD, 1996; KZLA, 1996-2001; KFSH, 2000-03; KRTH, 2006; KOLA,
2003-10; KTWV, 2010-14; KMZT, 2014. Marina worked weekends at KOLA in the
Inland Empire until July 2010 when she joined weekends at "The WAVE." She is
now a Global Radio Personality at My Own and Radio. Wilson, Mark: KLYY, 1999. Mark started
mornings at "Y107" in the spring of 1999 and left
in late 1999 following a format switch to Spanish.Wilson, Nancy: KTWV, 1987-95; KLON, 1997.
Nancy is living in Pasadena and doing voiceover and sudying acting at Actors
Improv Studio- teacher, Bill Applebaum. Wilson, Scotty: KNAC, 1984-88; KIIS,
1993-94. Scotty has been working for HardRadio.com.

WILSON, Warren:
KABC, 1965-68; KFWB, 1968-70. Warren
was a longtime reporter for KTLA/Channel 5. He retired
in 2005, after 21 years at KTLA.He is well
known for brokering the surrenders of some 22 fugitives during his
many years on the beat. During his tenure at KTLA, Wilson’s scoops
included interviewing Rodney King in 1991, just days after King was
beaten by L.A. police officers in a videotaped incident that helped
spark riots in the city the following year. In March 1993 alone, two
suspects involved in unrelated incidents contacted Wilson to arrange
their surrenders. One was a 14-year-old boy wanted for questioning
in a murder case who told Wilson that he reached out to the reporter
because of his “reputation for honesty.”

He joined KTLA
in September of 1984 as a part-time field reporter for the station’s
Prime News. Prior to coming to KTLA/WB, he held various senior
journalist positions for 15 years with KNBC and NBC Television News. He
received fifteen Emmy nominations. In 2005 Wilson received two Associated
Press Television-Radio Association Awards for Best Live Coverage of a News
Event and Best Spot News Story. His citations include: Most Responsible
Reporter in Southern California from former Los Angeles Police Department
Chief Daryl Gates, and he has received commendations from various community
organizations, state legislature, county supervisors, the City Council of
Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley, schools and many women’s organizations. He
won a Peabody Award as part of team coverage of the Rodney King beating
case, and in 2002 was honored as broadcast journalist of the year by the
Society of Professional Journalists.

His extensive education has
earned him a L.L.B. Degree from West Los Angeles School of Law; a B. A.
degree in Political Science from the California State University and an A.
A. Degree in Journalism from East Los Angeles College. He has majored in
News Film at Columbia University’s Special School of Telecommunications in
New York and in Political Science at UCLA. He taught Radio/TV News Writing
at California State University, Los Angeles.

WIMAN,
Al: KFWB,
1959-66;
KLAC, 1966-69. Al had
three incredible journeys reporting news in Southern California.
He was at KFWB during the Chuck Blore/Jim
Hawthorne rock years, the Joe Pyne talk
era at KLAC and the early stages of the successful KABC/Channel 7
Eyewitness News.
While at KFWB in 1964, Al narrated The Beatles' Story album
for Capitol Records.

"I was at the Charles Manson murder
site with my cameraman and sound engineer. We found the bloody
clothes on a hillside six minutes and 20 seconds away from Sharon
Tate's house. We got in the news van and traveled down
BenedictCanyon.
I was undressing in the station wagon and when I put on new clothes
we stopped the station wagon. We hiked down the hillside and found
the bloody clothes. The detectives were flabbergasted. We filmed it
but didn't touch the pile of clothes," said Al when being
interviewed for Los Angeles Radio People. He was referenced
in the Manson book and tv movie, Helter Skelter.

Al joined KFWB
doing traffic reports while he was in the Navy. Civilians were
running Armed Forces Radio and were jealous of Al's involvement with
KFWB so they shipped him out on the U.S.S. Topeka, a guided missile
cruiser. "I took music on the ship along with a jingle package. We
must have been the only ship with a set of jingles."

Al grew up in
Laurel,
Mississippi,
and was the medicine and science editor for KMOV/TV-St. Louis for decades.
When a photo of Al was requested from KMOV/TV, the marketing manager Mary
Westermeyer wrote the following unsolicited words about Al: "Al is extremely
humble and will never pat himself on the back. He's an outstanding reporter,
St. Louisan, husband and father, but foremost he's an incredible human
being. Al personally gives back to the community more than any other talent
with the station. He has an impeccable reputation within the St. Louis
medical community. Al has a terrific wit, caring attitude and he's adored in
the community." Al has moved to KSDK/TV in St. Louis.

WINCHELL, April:
KFI, 2000-02; KABC,
2003-04. April left
KFI at the end of 2002 and she appears every Tuesday evening with Marc Germain on
TalkRadioOne.com.
She wrote about her
famous father Paul Winchell: “The mere mention of my
father's name evokes bowls of cereal on the floor on
Saturday morning, a sense of wonderment and a suspension of
disbelief we don't have as adults. His work was magic to
us,” wrote April. “I loved his work. I was at every puppet
show, every recording session, every supermarket opening and
public appearance. I was his biggest fan. Never at any time,
will you ever hear me discount his talent or his
accomplishments.”

April continued: “My
father was an extremely gifted man. He did amazing things
with his intellect. He contributed not only to television,
but to medicine, society and technology. Some of you have
even said that he was infinitely more talented than I will
ever be. You're probably right. But I was never in
competition with him, nor am I jealous of his
accomplishments. I am very, very proud of them. I can
honestly say that he left this world a better place than he
found it.

“Every one of my
siblings suffered more than you will ever know," wrote
April. "I'm sorry if you're disappointed, but it was not
Winchell Mahoney Time at my house. It was dark and
frightening and very, very sad. Last year, my father wrote a
book called Winch. That book was so cruel, that I no
longer felt compelled to protect him, or you.”

“Imagine that your
father writes a book depicting your loving and generous
mother as a whore. Imagine him laying waste to your entire
family, under the guise of ‘getting well.’ Imagine too, that
all his memories are filtered through years of self-admitted
drug abuse and mental illness, and bear no relation to the
real events.

"What would you do with
that? All I can tell you is what I had to do. I had to
defend my mother. Because she really is a hero. My mother
stood by my father for 12 years, throughout his drug abuse,
his infidelities, his paranoia, his psychotic episodes, his
physical abuse and his institutionalizations. She did so
because he was my father, and she did that for me.

"When she finally realized our own
mental health was at risk, she left. She was heartbroken. He retaliated in
ways that are unspeakable. Still, my mother insisted that I keep in contact
with him, because he was my father. She forced me to go on visitation with
him, because he was my father.

Whether you think I'm
funny or not, my sense of humor is my greatest gift. It has
been my vocation and my lifeline. And that sense of humor
was a gift from my mother. She taught me the value of
laughter. She gave me self-esteem. And most importantly, she
was there."

Windsor, Natalie: KMGX, 1990. Natalie covers
the country music beat for AP Radio Network.Winesett, Barry: KRLA, 1984-92. Barry is
doing post-production for several syndicated radio shows
including The Dr. Demento Show.Wingert,
Wally: KTWV, 1987-2001. Wally is a national voiceover talent.Winnaman, John: KLOS, 1974-79. The gm of the
AOR station died on the baseball field during a KLOS
promotional game.

WINSTON, Cliff:
KJLH, 1986-90; KKBT,
1990-93; KJLH, 1993-2006; KKBT/KRBV, 2006-08. Cliff worked mornings at KRBV
(V-100) until Radio-One sold the station to Bonneville in April 2008. Cliff
died of a massive heart attack on December 19, 2017.

Cliff grew up in Southern California, with his first ambition in
broadcasting was sportscasting. He attended the University of
Washington and started his radio career at KYAC-Seattle doing both
drive times. He moved to KMJM-St. Louis, followed by a stint at
WBMX-Chicago, then served as pd at WDRQ-Detroit. KRLY-Houston was
his last stop before joining KJLH.

Cliff was one of the
original morning hosts at “The Beat” (KKBT) while also serving as
public affairs director. In late 1993, he rejoined KJLH in morning
drive, where he had spent 13 years. In the summer of 1995, Cliff was
appointed pd of KJLH. The Urban Network has recognized him as air
personality of the year. In 1999 he received another award as Air
Personality of the Year by Black Radio Exclusive Magazine.

He was a giant in LARadio and this will give you a perspective on who we
lost. Some highlights from an LARadio story in 2006: “Any conversation you
have about an enduring Urban Contemporary radio personality in Los Angeles
has to include Cliff Winston,” said Kevin Fleming, his
colleague at KKBT.

Born and raised in L.A., as a youngster Cliff was fascinated with listening
to his transistor radio. “I would be up in the middle of the night listening
to the radio and I loved KHJ. When I was a real small kid, they had KRLA and
my mom used to listen to KFWB and KGFJ. It’s funny that KFWB uses the same
jingle they used when they were a Top 40 station,” said Clliff. “I loved
that style of radio with Robert W. Morgan, The Real
Don Steele, Sam Riddle and all those legends.”

During school games, Cliff would practice by taking his tape recorder to the
very top of the gymnasium and call the action. “When I got to the LA City
College tv/radio program I began to feel I could really do this when KDAY
signed on with Jim Maddox, JJ Johnson, and
Steve Wood, I wanted to be like them.” He transferred to
the University of Washington where they had a stronger radio/tv program.
From the Northwest he went to St. Louis to work at “Magic 108” for Jim
Maddox. The morning man was Brad Edwards. “When I was
growing up I would listen to Brad on KGBS. I couldn’t believe I would be
working with big Bradley. He came from that generation of hard-drinking
guys. He could be hung over, napping under the console, and the record
ended, he would get up and do a break flawlessly. When the light went on,
bam, he was on. It blew me away watching big Brad. He was still the fastest
gun in the West but his hands would shake.”

Following Cliff’s time in St. Louis, he went to WBMX-Chicago, which was
owned by Sonderling Broadcasting. “I remember one night when the old man
came on the air with me because they had some sort of political turmoil and
Jesse Jackson was picketing the station. He was an old German gentleman
proclaiming that the station was always 'a black music experience.' A great
guy, but what a classic for the owner, Edgemont Sonderling, to be on the
overnight shift with me.”

He left Chicago in 1981 and worked for Spanky Lane
(ex-KDAY) at Adult Contemporary WDRQ-Detroit. “When Spanky left he made me
program director under consultant Al Casey. I learned a lot from Al who
said, ‘You know what, junior, let me tell you what wins. Songs win. A great
song wins. Always remember, songs win. Not tracks, but songs.” During this
time, Cliff learned about call-out research because he had to make the calls
and then calculate everything by hand. “It showed me that songs I liked
weren’t songs that the audience necessarily liked. Songs I’m tired of, the
audience might just be getting used to them. Jerry Clifton
(the consultant) was a strict research guy and he was right. The station
shot up in the market.” Cliff eventually was offered an opportunity to join
KJLH in 1985. “I actually took a pay cut to work middays, but within a year
I was pd and working morning drive until 1990 when the BEAT first signed on
with Jimmy DeCastro, Liz Kiley and
Mike Stradford. The station shot to the top. It was a great
success.”

Winston,
Kari Johnson: KBIG, 1978-82 and
1985-95. Kari is president of Bonneville's Washington, DC
radio division.
Winston, Robert: Robert is vp/gm at Metro
Networks/Shadow Broadcast Services. The former national sales manager at KFI
went on to KFWB and eventually he became vp of sales for AM/FM, Inc.Winter,
Pat: KFWB, 1971-75. Pat was a writer, editor and broadcast reporter for
KFWB.Winterble,
Brett: KFWB, 2014-15. Brett, a 20 year veteran of radio and television, has
worked with Clear Channel, Radio America, CBS News, Brandon D’Amore
Productions, Premiere Radio Networks, National Review and Human Events, just
to name a few. He speaks with groups on the transformative power of talk
radio. Brett is also a comedy writer who has done Stand Up Comedy in NYC and
studied with the Groundlings Improv Group in LA. He spent a year in
afternoon drive at the new Sports station, KFWB (The Beast) with partner
George Wrighster. They left in August 2015. Brett hosts afternoon drive at
news/talk KFMB-AM, San Diego. Wisdom, Gabriel: XHIS/XHRS, 1972; KLSX,
1999-2009. Since 1997, he has hosted or
co-hosted Financial Wisdom with Gabriel Wisdom heard nationally on the
affiliates of The Business Talk Radio Network. He owns American Money
Management.

Marci has done a tour of radio duty
that stretches from Los Angeles to Manhattan, from D.C. to Seattle,
and a bunch of other points in-between. She grew up in the midwest
with her big personality and loud music and after being discovered
on a college radio station, the rest, as they say, is history. Marci
is obsessed with Dave Grohl, she’s addicted to Law & Order
reruns and Smart Water, and she suffers from misophonia, which means
certain sounds and words drive her up the wall and back.

Note of
caution: When around Marci, don’t blow your nose, sneeze or utter
the words snack, moist or ribbon, You’ve been warned. When she’s not
hanging out at The Rock of Southern California, you can find her at
clubs, theaters, parks, mountains and the beach. (From the KLOS
website)

Wisk, Al: KMPC, 1978-79. The former LA Ram
broadcaster is an attorney practicing in Dallas.Witcher, Geoff: KGIL, 1969-70; KABC,
1975-83; KMPC, 1992-94; KABC, 1995-97; KIIS/KXTA, 1998-99;
KFWB, 2000-02; KLAC, 2001; KNX, 2012-17. Geoff is a longtime radio sports figure and
was part
of the Angels post-game game show. He was one of the weekend sports anchors at
all-News, KNX.Witherspoon, Jimmy: KMET. The blues singer
died of natural causes on September 18, 1997. He was 74.Wittenberg, Dave: KLYY, 1999. Dave worked
evenings at "Y107" with Harrison until late 1999
when the station changed to Spanish.

Janine began her radio career in 1977 at KYTE-Portland. "I went on
to work as the first female announcer ever on #1 KGW and
KWJJ-Portland."

In 1980 she joined KHJ and from 1984 to 1988
worked at Transtar Radio Networks. In 1985 she was holding down a
weekend shift at "K-Hits" in addition to her satellite service
duties. From 1983 to 1987 she co-hosted syndicated "Country Music's
Top Ten" with Charlie Cook.

"In the winter
of 1990 I went to do mornings at Unistar Radio Networks [later WW1]
and continued to work afternoons on their Soft AC format." In the
early 1990s, she hosted a weekly show on KCAL/Channel 9 called
Our Planet and was nominated for two Emmys for host and
producer. Beginning in 1993 Janine was the live announcer for KCAL's
Live in L.A. morning show. She left KBIG in the summer of
2001 to open a landscape design business. Janine has been featured
on HGTV’s Landscaper’s Challenge.

WOLF,
John: KABC, 2013-19. John Wolf (LaVine) is a traffic reporter in Los Angeles.
At KABC, he worked
the midday news/traffic shift. Not only does he
report on the busy traffic but in 2002, while in the air over Dallas
reporting for KRLD, his helicopter crash landed.

John got started
on his radio journey doing promotions at KNX in the 1980s. He went on to
KGOE-Thousand Oaks, where he did play-by-play, sales and production.
Before the 1980s were over, John worked at KCAQ-Oxnard-Ventura-Santa
Barbara, KBLU-Yuma, Arizona (which he called the Ashtray of the
Southwest), Bryan-College Station, Sarasota, and Tampa Bay.

By 1994, John
was morning drive co-host and news director at KKRW-Houston, followed by
sports talk host at Prime Sports Radio. For a decade he was a news and
traffic reporter at KRLD.

Wolfe, Gerald: KLSX, 1998-99. Gerald was
part of the weekend "Ken and Jerry's Countdown
Deli" show.Wolfson, George: KXEZ, 1995. The former
general manager at KXEZ. George passed away in 1998.Wolt, Ken: KTNQ/KLVE, 1985-92. Ken is
president of Radio/TV travel, an incentive travel company
specializing in sales incentive plans for the broadcast
industry, and is headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada
(Lake Tahoe).Wong, Al: KYPA, 1996. The former general
manager of KYPA. Unknown.

(April Whitney, David Wayne, Dave Wagner,
and Marina Wilson)

WOOD,Jim:
KBLA, 1965;
KGFJ, 1966-67;
KRLA, 1967-68;
KGFJ, 1970-72;
KROQ, 1972;
KGFJ, 1978-79;
XPRS, 1982-83. Tyler,
Texas-born "Big Jim Wood" spent time on black-formatted stations and
was referred to as a blue-eyed soul personality on KGFJ. At KRLAhe was known as "The Vanilla Gorilla." The latter off-air
reference was dubbed during his KGFJ days when Jim was one of two
white jocks on the r&b station.

He was
given the Billboard
Leading Soul Music Air Personality award at the first annual
ceremony in 1970 and for the next three years. He worked at
KILT-Houston and WIBG-Philadelphia. Jim died at the age of 58 in
1990.

At the
time of his death he was a security guard and was suffering from
emphysema. One of his friends remembered, "Jim was in the hospital
and got a cough drop stuck in his throat and he choked to death."

Wood, Jim: KPOL/KZLA, 1979-80. In 1995, Jim
created Fan Club Management Services, a company that manages
the fan clubs of recording artists and other "fan
sensitive" groups.Woodruff, Norman: KRCK, KRLA, KRNO, KLOA-Sacramento, KCBS-San Francisco. Norman Eugene Woodruff is
considered to be among the foremost pioneers in the advent of talk radio.
He had thirty year career as a preeminent network newscaster. Norm was
considered by many to be the “Lou Grant of radio” -- gruff but loveable and
with news in his blood. His proudest achievement was probably the success of
CBS-owned KCBS Newsradio in the highly-competitive San Francisco radio
market. Under his stewardship in the 1970s, KCBS reached No. 1 in the
ratings and stayed there for several years. The station had
personable-yet-aggressive news coverage and took seriously the slogans “The
News Authority” and “What goes on is on right now.”

Norm was famous for
calling news editors from his car if he heard sirens and didn’t quickly hear
the reason why on the air. After Hearst newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was
kidnapped by domestic terrorists in 1974, he had a telephone jack installed
on a tree outside the Hearst estate gates so reporters could conduct live
remote broadcasts throughout the months-long drama.

It was while Norm
consulted Bonneville’s Kansas City station KMBZ in the early ’80s that he
encountered Rush Limbaugh, who had recently been a public relations exec for
the Kansas City Royals. Rush’s opinionated radio commentaries often made
KMBZ’s conservative Mormon owners nervous. Norm counseled Rush and helped to
focus his talents - and even advised him on his wardrobe and other
trappings of the potential stardom Norm envisioned. In 1984, Norm
recommended Rush to Group W’s Sacramento station as a replacement for the
recently-fired Morton Downey, Jr.

Four years later, EFM Media and WABC-New
York combined to bring Limbaugh east and, soon, to the nation. Norm was
involved with Satellite radio decades before the arrival of Sirius and XM.
In 1979, his consulting firm initiated a pioneering nationwide project to
find acceptable sites for hundreds of satellite receiving dishes for
affiliates of the Mutual Broadcasting System. Mutual was the first network
to phase out expensive telephone lines and opt for delivering programming to
stations via satellite, beginning in the early ’80s.

When you hear Rush
Limbaugh refer to “adult beverages,” that’s a “Woodruff-ism” that Rush
picked up. Rush even says it in the same theatrical way Norm said it. It’s
not known if Norm ever referred to Jesse Jackson the way Rush does
(“The….REVerand….JACKson”), but that’s the way Norm would have done it if he
was in the mood to take a poke.

Norman Woodruff passed away December 2,
1987 at the age of 48.

Woods,
Bo: KRTH, 2002-06. Bo worked swing at Oldies "K-Earth" and left in early
2006. In late 2014, Bo joined KORA in Bryan-College Station, Texas as
program director and morning personality. He's now working at Comedy
KBSZ (Funny 1260 AM) in Phoenix. Woods, David: KPOL, 1965-70. Unknown.Woods,
George: KJOI, 1973. George is no longer in radio. Woods, J. Thomas: KWIZ,
1971. Tom ran for the California Assembly and won two terms (1994-98). He is
now a retired Assemblyman living in Upland.

At KDAY Steve was color man for the
high school games of the week. Steve hosted the “KOOL Jazz
Festival.” A 1989 LA Times
story quoted Steve: "The identity of black radio is based on playing
music by black djs."

At his
memorial, KJLH's Cliff Winston remembered
“Steve Woods never got the kudos. Colleague Antoinette
Russell added, “Steve introduced Parliament and Earth, Wind
and Fire to the Southland. And he should be remembered for raising
the pay scale for black jocks.”

Over 100 family friends and radio colleagues joined together at the
Christ The Good Shepard Episcopal Church in Los Angeles to remember
a friend. Jim Maddox, who hired Steve at KDAY in
the 1970s, said that Steve “stood out. He was so personable, but
serious. Steve was a star on AM radio.”

Born Clarence Steven Woods in Los Angeles on February 1, 1951, he explored
his showmanship at Hollywood High School, as well as his athleticism. He was
an outstanding member of the track team and varsity football program. After
graduating from Hollywood High, he worked in the mailroom at KHJ in the
early 1970s. He went on to jock in Lubbock and Dallas before joining KDAY in
1974. Later, he was named pd, a position he also held at KJLH and KACE.

Antoinette guessed that if Steve had not pursued radio, he would have been
chief of police. He did serve as a reserve Los Angeles police officer and
paramedic during the 1980s. The versatile performer also owned a pistachio
farm near Las Vegas.

Woods, Tom: KPOL, 1965-69; KFWB, 1969-86.
Tom was at California State University, Los Angeles from 1989-2005 where he
was editor of Business Forum, a refereed business journal produced
by the campus' College of Business and Economics. He is retired and lives in
Lucerne Valley.

WOODMAN,
Steve: KFWB, 1965; KDAY, 1968.
Steve, a veteran radio and television personality described as "a
living performance," died in his sleep March 13, 1990. He was 62.

Steve never got into the starting line-up at "Channel 98"
and always worked weekends. At KDAY he did morning drive as
Woody Stevens. Woodman was known across Canada as Dr.
Bundolo on the popular CBC radio comedy program of the same name. In
Vancouver, he was well known as the afternoon host on radio station
CKWX.

Gene Kern, a longtime friend and colleague of Woodman
in the 1970s, said his original satires and voice impressions were
outstanding. "He was the most memorable and talented performer I
ever worked with," Kern recalled. "The guy was a living performance,
and was 10 or 15 years ahead of his time."

In the early days
of his career in the 1960's, comedian Rich Little contacted Woodman
at a Montreal radio station to get advice on doing impressions, said
Kern. Among Woodman's funniest routines, he said, was a continuing
character he voiced on his radio program named Miss Juggs, the
station coffee girl. "Sometimes he would scold her and she would
burst into tears, lighting up the telephone switchboard with calls
from listeners asking him to leave her alone.” The comedy program,
taped before live audiences and broadcast across Canada, ran from
1972 to 1981. Woodman was involved with the show until 1974.

Woodman had also previously worked in Edmonton, Montreal,
Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. He also managed rock and roll
bands and played host to various children's tv shows. Woodman's
career ended when he suffered a major head injury - causing him to
lose his speech -- in a 1974 car accident while he was driving home
after a telethon. A colleague said Woodman never recovered. "He was
in a coma for a long time. His car just rolled down the bank. But a
cassette tape of his friends was played again and again in the
hospital and one day he woke up. After a couple of major
operations, Woodman was able to resume some activities such as golf.

Steve started at CKUA in Edmonton and actually taught
Robert Goulet how to be a disc jockey. Steve became #1 in Montreal
at CFCF, did a morning show in Toronto CKEY with Keith Rich.
Woodman and Rich subsequently did the after noon radio show on
WNBC-New York ... starting the same day Johnny Carson did. Then
went to Los Angeles, where he did a couple of movies, some radio and
tv and was the first Ronald MacDonald in Los Angeles, opening toy
stores and MacDonald restaurants. (Artwork courtesy of Bill Earl)

Woodruf, Fred: KLON, 1975-78. Unknown.

(Rick Wallace, EZ Wiggins and Fred
Wallin)

Woodside, Larry: KROQ,
1980-81; KLOS. Larry is with a car dealership in Atascadero.Woodson, Valerie: KRLA, 1975-76; KTNQ,
1977-79. Unknown.
Woody Show:
KYSR, 2014-19. Described as a “recess/happy hour on the radio,” the Woody
Show is the brainchild of Jeff “Woody” Fife. The show was perfected at St.
Louis alternative “105.7 the Point” KPNT. Before that he and folks from the
current “Woody Show” teamed at CBS-owned alternative “Live 105” KITS San
Francisco – one of the Howard Stern replacement shows that clicked.
Woolery, Chuck: KLSX, 1996. Chuck hosted
tv's Love Connection for 11 years. He is a spokesperson for a
number of products on tv.Worden,
Lisa: KYSR, 2018-19. Lisa was made program director at Alt 98.7 in January
2018.Workman, Martin: KFAC, 1976-87. Martin hosted "Luncheon at the Music
Center." He has performed as a professional violinist, a
singer of light opera and oratorio and as an actor. Martin
holds degrees in economics, sociology and a doctorate in
abnormal psychology. In 1979 he suffered a heart attack but
was back on the air after two months of rest. Martin died in
1990.Worlds, Jamie: KOST, 1990; KACE, 1990-91;
KKBT, 1992-93; KTWV, 1994-2003. Jamie was a weekender at
"the Wave" until early summer 2003. She's working on multiple tv
and film projects.

WORTHINGTON, Cal:
KXLA, 1950-59. They
don’t make them like Calvin Coolidge (Cal) Worthington anymore. For decades he
broke through the clutter of commercials to become a personality, an icon who
sold cars to the masses and would make the deal no matter what it took. We saw
him stand on his head, trot out live animals of various sizes and shapes, and
then like lemmings, we would go see Cal.

Cal died September 8, 2013, at the age
of 92. An era passed with the passing of Cal. The ultimate showman, some might
call huckster, had an uncanny knack for being welcomed into our homes. He seemed
like the ‘aw shucks’ kind of uncle that we loved to have around. When he said he
could get anyone into one of his cars, we believed him.

He had a life before the car
business. He was a Country music deejay for most of the 1950s at 1110/KXLA. “I
remember listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford, Cliffie Stone,
Jim
Hawthorne and Squeekin' Deacon while growing up in Southern
California as a kid, but wasn't aware of Cal being on KXLA until I helped
produce the thirty year anniversary weekend at KRLA in 1989,” remembered
Gary
Marshall, former production whiz at KRLA and K-EARTH. “Cal participated in
our re-creation as the last voice heard on the old Country format (KXLA) before
the switch to KRLA and rock jock Jimmy O'Neill.”

Cal used to sign off his Country
show with: "Well, until we see you at Worthington Dodge today or get back with
you on KXLA, we're gonna have to pick a wildwood flower bouquet."

WORTHINGTON, Diane:
KABC, 1989-95. Long considered an expert on California
and contemporary American cuisine, Diane Rossen Worthington is the
author of 20 cookbooks, an award-winning radio show host, food and
travel writer, nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media
Services, food and travel correspondent on the syndicated Blue
Lifestyle radio show and former Editor-in-Chief of Epicurus.com. and
food consultant. She has appeared frequently as a media food expert
on television and radio shows, including The Today Show,
Fox and Friends,
The Television Food Network, CNN, and NPR. She twice won the
prestigious International James Beard Award for "California Foods
with Diane Worthington," the talk show she hosted which aired every
Saturday morning on KABC. Diane Rossen Worthington lives in Los
Angeles.

Worthington, Rod: KDAY. In
the early 1970s Rod broadcast traffic conditions from a Cesna
150. His plane was dubbed "The KDAY Sky Potato."Wrighster, George:
KFWB, 2014-15. George Frederick Wrighster, III, played pro football for the
Jacksonville Jaguars. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL
draft. He played college football at Oregon. His NFL career ended in 2009.
He joined Brett Winterble for afternoon drive for the launch of the new
sports station, KFWB, The Beast. The show failed to attract any traction.
They left a year later in August 2015.Wright, Bill: KPFK, 1976-78; KWIZ, 1978-89;
KYMS, 1990-91; KBIG, 1992-96; KWVE, 1998-99. Bill
is a producer for Ambassador
Advertising Agency (now in Irvine). He's also active in voiceovers.Wright,
Bradley: KYSR, 2003-06. Bradley worked afternoons at "Star 98.7fm." He
exited the station in the spring of 2006. He has an active voiceover career.

Born
in Inglewood in 1937, Charleye
graduated from Lynwood High and
ComptonCollege. He graduated with
an M.A. from BaylorUniversity with plans to
enter the ministry. He got into broadcasting while in college.

Charleye taught high school English for two years and worked in
Waco and Dallas radio, then moved
to Dick Clark's KPRO-Riverside before arriving at
KLAC. He was Les Crane's newsman in afternoon
drive. At KIIS, he worked under programmer Chuck Blore,
who was attempting features such as mini-dramas and a series of
mind-sputtering aphorisms called "Kissettes." Chuck encouraged his
newsmen to converse with the audience instead of reading to them.
"The time with Blore was a great benefit to me. He encouraged the
personality approach. He taught me to look for the human aspect of
the news."

In 1982,
Charleye won a third Golden Mike award. He had undergone dialysis three
times per week for five years when the treatments began to fail. He was
gradually deteriorating, to the point he became incoherent, could not speak
plain English and couldn't remember the names of his wife and children. A
successful transplant left him with one perfect kidney and two old ones that
function less than ten percent of normal. His father died of the same
ailment. "My father got it too young to take advantage of kidney
transplants.” In the summer of 1990, he left Dees for the successful “House Party” morning drive show
with John London at KKBT, where he continued to perform as "The Coach."

The Houston native got his start in
radio at a very young age. By the time he graduated from high
school, he’d already landed three radio gigs! After a few stop s
around the country, JoJo arrived joined KIIS/fm on the overnight
shift and was quickly promoted to evenings. He's been featured in
multiple TV shows and movies, and dominating evening radio in
Southern California for years.

His nightly show on KIIS/fm,
is nationally syndicated in over 60 markets. From the KIIS/fm
website, a few fun facts about JoJo: He brushes his teeth before
every show. He’s a part-time ghost hunter. He has a Peter Pan
tattoo. He asked Barack Obama for Area 51 access. He “goes” to
dentist regularly but has never actually seen the dentist. He’s
studying to be a wine sommelier. He’s convinced his paranormal
obsession is because his mother took him to graveyards for picnics.

Wright, Van Earl: KFWB, 1997;
KXTA, 2004-05. Van Earl worked morning drive at XTRA Sports 1150. In early
2008, he was the voice of the new American Gladiators on NBC.

WRIGHSTER,
George: KFWB, 2014-15. George was drafted by the
Jacksonville Jaguars in the fourth round (104th overall) of the 2003
NFL Draft. He played six seasons with the team before being released
on April 3, 2009. He often showed flashes of greatness, but missed
30 games due to injury. Wrighster was signed by the NY Giants on May
9, 2009 after attending the team's minicamp. He was waived on June
24, 2009.

After his professional football career ended,
Wrighster entered the field of sports broadcasting. Beginning in
September 2014, George hosted a Los Angeles-based daily afternoon
radio show called "The Drive" on The Beast 980 KFWB. In August 2015,
Wrighster debuted on Fox Sports 1 as a sports analyst and opinionist
on such shows as Fox Sports Live Countdown and Kickoff
To Countdown. He has also been the game analyst for multiple
games on ESPN3 and FS1.

WYATT, Jeff:
KPWR, 1986-91, pd; KIIS, 1991-94,
pd; KACD, 1996-97, gm; KCMG, 1998.
Jeff arrived in the Southland after being pd at WUSL-Philadelphia
and assistant pd at WXKS (“KISS 108”)-Boston in the late 1970s. He
has a degree in political-science from Miami of Ohio. He moved to
Boston to play guitar in local clubs - "a cool/jazz kind of thing."

In 1986, Jeff powered KPWR and the arrival of morning man
Jay Thomas. With an initial buzz in the ratings,
Jeff said, "They do a great job over at KIIS, but I think
Rick Dees is beginning to go south." Wyatt freely admitted
that he was more of an assimilator than an innovator. "We're trying
to reflect our listeners' tastes, not necessarily educate them." In
1987, Jeff was named Program Director of the Year (black format) by
Billboard. From 1987 to 1991, he was host of Westwood One's
"American Dance Trax." A year later Billboard placed "Power
106" in the Top 40 category and Jeff won the 1988 Program Director
of the Year. He was recognized by KPWR’s parent company, Emmis
Broadcasting, in 1988 when he was made regional vp of programming.
Wyatt feels that promotion "is an essential component of success.
There's nothing scientific about rotating songs. But how you package
it, how you create the sizzle around it, will make the difference."

Even though KIIS was his primary competition while
programming KPWR, Jeff left "Power 106" to go on-air in afternoon
drive at KIIS. He became pd of KIIS in 1992 and left in the summer
of 1994. In early 1996 he started Fair Air Communications.

Jeff was born in South Bend, Indiana and is "a HUGE Notre Dame fan!"
In the summer of 1996 he was appointed gm of KACD during its "Groove
Radio" format and left in early 1997. Later that year he was
appointed gm of Celestial Mechanix, Inc. In the spring of 1998, Jeff
joined mornings at “Mega 100” and left in late summer. In early 1999
he went to Washington, DC to program WMZQ and WITH. In late 2017, he
left iHeart's cluster in Baltimore.

WYATT, Marques:
KKBT, 1994-95. Marques
was a club dj at the
Deep at 1650 in Hollywood.
Sonic love travels in many dimensions – through visceral pathways of
the senses, as a uniting force on dance floors everywhere, in
movements spanning entire eras to unify – whether souls, states or
nations. And as sonic love relates to house music, Marques is a
seminal pioneer.

In the mid ‘90s, at a time when the shape
shifting of house music was rarely heard outside Chicago and New
York, Marques introduced the East coast sound to his native Los
Angeles via legendary house parties like BBC, MAC’s Garage and Does
Your Mama Know, to name a few. In the ensuing years, his prowess as
a talented DJ, promoter, and producer earned him recognition as one
of the most sought-after artists in the genre, domestically and
internationally. Always true to his inner visionary, Marques
continued his ventures into unchartered territory by introducing Los
Angeles to acid jazz” through Brass, his unforgettable weekly which
debuted live performances of high profile acts such as Jamiroquai
and the Brand New Heavies way back when.

At the same time,
Marques continued playing his own brand of uncompromising, soulfully
organic house alongside talents such as Frankie Knuckles, Louie
Vega, David Morales, Danny Teneglia, King Britt, Mark Farina, and
Miguel Migs. Marques’ keen sixth sense for creating epic parties
culminated in his weekly house institution, Deep, now going strong.
Marques has also channeled his gifts in the studio, releasing tracks
and remixes on revered labels such as Om, Strictly Rhythm, King
Street, Nervous, and Yoshitoshi. Marques continues to spread the
gospel of house music by globe-trotting everywhere from Los Angeles
to New York, Shanghai to Barcelona and Tel Aviv to Dubai with the
mission to bring musical unity, light and love to all souls in his
pathway. (from Wyatt's website)